The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23

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0:00 Well, I guess they're still messing with me. They just kicked me out again. Oh, wow. What the heck? I'm going to spend a second here and set up the live stream for everyone. Just a second. Turn on YouTube. Next. Allow. Allow. And I am.

0:39 Going to try something at the end of over on Rumble on how to be able to share the screen and stuff. So I'm going to stay live a little bit over on Rumble after the show. So anyway, let me get my computer up on this pedestal and we will go live.

1:17 All right. So I don't know if Cousin It's going to be here. Bridget's out hunting. And so if you guys could repost the space, if you wouldn't mind, so we can get everybody in here. Let me see who else we want to get in here. All right. So.

2:08 SR-71, have you been staying up on all of the back and forth going on? I have been trying to, Colonel. Let me tell you that much. All the back and forth that's been going on here lately is just mind-boggling, to say the least. So I find this very, very interesting for lots of different reasons.

2:37 And let me just share with you a couple of the things that I find most interesting. Because I find it all fascinating, actually. If you were to look at, say, for example, let me go to my, before we get started on the book review. Let's see. There's the one guy, David Franz. Okay.

3:09 He took exception and to something that I said about Mike Benz not giving Paul Williams and Operation Gladio credit for the information, none of which he would have had had he not come here, as a matter of fact, to our information. And so he did find, I'm going to give him credit, where he mentioned it on Bannon's war room.

3:40 Well, he says he did. I'll have to look at the clip afterwards. I'm not going to play it now. But I like how people try to say that you're being angry when you're answering their questions when in their non-angry post.

4:05 they do the small and capital letters like it's like cryptography or something. You know what I mean? And I'm like, dude, you're saying that I appear angry when I'm just answering your question and you're mistyping letters and putting capital letters in there. I'm like, okay.

4:33 What I do want to point out in all of this is a few aspects of informational warfare that you may or may not be aware of. When I didn't know, and this is kind of the revelation of all that, I thought that this was just a one-off thing that I wanted you guys to be aware of. And that is that in...

5:06 the information space, sharing information is the most critical node in information warfare. It allows you to compare notes and assess where you're at in your campaign and where the enemy is at in their campaign. And what I find fascinating is the people that we are opposed to

5:38 They conduct information operations all the time. Information warfare with the media and these nonprofits. And every aspect of their attack on us is coordinated. Every aspect. They have forums in which they...

6:01 like the Aspen Center, where they coordinate the attack. I mean, and that's basically like the Anti-Communist League and them voting on how they were going to approach things. They act as a collective where we sit at home and we do our own things. And we may be in little cells like Cousin It, me and Bridget, but we rarely take

6:30 Our information, other than, you know, our composite that I post in threads, we rarely get to get like this Badlands fan club that I host at my house generally. At no time do we sit around and collectively talk about messaging or anything else. It's just a good time where people are getting together. We eat snacks and we kind of.

7:00 share information about what's going on in our patriot effort. But it's not like an on-purpose information warfare coordination meeting. And so occasionally somebody will throw something out like I did because I found it odd. And then you have 10 or 15 other people who share very similar, if not even more odd, information.

7:27 And then you have these people that are on the peripheral who has no dog in the fight at all, jumping up immediately going, why are you doing this? Well, we're in an information war. We're sharing information. That's why we're doing this. Well, you're attacking somebody. No, I'm not. I'm sharing information.

7:55 I had no idea all of that information had been posted by someone, Ruby, whatever her name is, where Alpha Warrior shared that. And then she shared the information that she had. And that's how information warfare works. But if you don't actually talk about it, you aren't ever going to get all of the information because we don't know what we don't know.

8:25 And you put out what you don't know and what you think is odd. And then other people can say, well, you know, that's not really odd. I had this happen to me and blah, blah, blah. And or you get what we got over the last 24 hours. And it was like, oh, my God. All right. So that's point number one before we get to the. The other thing that I want to bring up is because I know you guys probably saw it on.

8:52 Cousin Bridget and I's post. So I wanted to walk you guys through another information warfare scenario. So on Saturday, my sisters and I have this ginormous Christmas party. So I'm getting ready for the Christmas party. And I have I had went through the spaces and was just listening to a few of them. So I came across one.

9:16 and the name of it had something to do with Syria. Well, I just spent the last two weeks researching Syria, and I'm like, well, I'll listen to it. And I've listened to like five or six of them. Probably only two of the five or six actually had real information. The other ones were mainstream media talking points. And so when I clicked on this particular one about Syria, I noticed because I always go to the host, and if it's some crazy person that's got

9:46 crazy crap on their profile, I don't stay. I don't go in anonymous. I don't believe all of that bullshit. So this particular person said they'd been in the military and that they were an intel analyst in the military. And I'm like, well, I'll check this out. So I get in and they're basically talking back and forth.

10:12 about all the mainstream media talking points. Rush is the bad guy. Assad needs to be assassinated, blah, blah, blah. And so I asked for a mic and came up. And by this time, we're on our way to the Christmas party. And I talked to him probably about 10 minutes. He attacked everything that I shared with him as facts, as if...

10:43 He'd never heard any of it before. However, here's the way he did it. And this is information warfare, which is why I'm sharing this. So you guys know that we talked about the comparison with the Phoenix program and how all of this all comes back to the United States. Everything that we are doing around the world comes back here. And the whole.

11:08 refugee thing and the chaos all comes back here because they ship all of the refugees to us. And so it's a way of destabilizing the United States. And so I was explaining all of this and he's acting like I'm a conspiracy theorist. And so I said, okay, so we got around to talking about the Phoenix program. And I said, and you guys realize that's not even the first use of that, that it was first used in Malaya and blah, blah, blah.

11:38 So when I mentioned that, I had went on to the next topic of conversation and he goes back and he starts throwing out all these numbers. And I said, like the fact that they killed everybody in the concentration camp and he's like, no, they didn't like during the Boer Wars and the use of Agent Orange and all that other stuff.

12:02 So he starts saying these numbers. And I said, do you mind if I ask you what you're referring to when you're saying these numbers that are incorrect? And he goes, I'm on Wikipedia. And I said, oh, hold up. You're fact checking me with Wikipedia? And he goes, yeah. And I'm like, OK, so I'm not going to have a conversation with somebody whose facts come from Wikipedia.

12:32 So we were already at the house, my sister's house, and I was, my husband had already got out of the car. And there was several things that I had provided information on that he was just dead ass wrong about. But I have explained to y'all many times the reason why I do that.

12:56 is because this guy had over 100,000 followers and there were over 350 people in this space. Now, every single one of them heard me confront him with real information that completely, for lack of a better word, annihilated his talking points. And so that happened on...

13:27 Saturday. Well, yesterday during the space, because I made note of who this guy was, I went back and looked at his handle and I about busted a gasket because his, what's his, what was it? Cousin It? Something squirrel? Secret squirrel, right? She may not be listening. It was like secret squirrel. Like, oh, you've got to be shitting me.

13:59 So I just thought that was hilarious, especially since we just had the conversation about squirrels yesterday. And so immediately after the space, he starts and I mean, probably was doing it while he was in it because he was in it anonymously. I went through and looked at all the names yesterday. So he must have been in here anonymously. But he had.

14:24 Again, thrown out a whole bunch of he basically was making fun of anyone who came up and spoke yesterday afternoon on top of basically saying again that I don't know what I'm talking about. And so each he only had like maybe five or six things that I actually said that you could actually go back and provide information. And I did. And so Bridget immediately calls me and goes, what the hell are you doing? Block him.

14:53 And I'm like, I'm not going to block him yet. So we had a conversation this morning and both Cousin It and Bridget provided him additional information. And then we blocked him. No, I told him to fuck off. Okay. And by the way, why do you always, I've got the phone. Why do you always call on me when I'm sighting in a squirrel? Speaking of. Yeah.

15:23 When my hands are full, when I'm sighting the little bastard in. Did Bridget tell you that I actually have a camera there located somewhere? Yeah, I guess. So anyway, and I have heard Dan Bongino say this too, but I have always had the, while I was on active duty, and I explained this, this was one of my NCO leadership.

15:53 speeches, points to get across to our young and upcoming NCOs and junior officers is when you have conversations in the office space, you're not just communicating with the person that you're talking to because we work in cubicles. If you're on the flight line as a maintenance officer, everybody can hear what you say. You may be addressing someone.

16:22 That's a slacker knothead. And what you say to that person is going to be overheard by everybody. And you're not just saying it for that person. Because the worst morale problem that you have in the military, one of the worst, is because we don't have financial incentives that you can give to.

16:52 your enlisted troops. You give them medals. You put them in for awards. There are recognition, but none of it is monetary. It's all data. And of course, if it's a medal, they get points on their promotion test and blah, blah, blah. But because you don't have, and it's hard as hell to discharge someone, you have to do a lot of documentation.

17:19 um you will have people that are non-performers and you tend to have them around longer than what should be and as a result of that you have to hold their feet to the fire because they're taking up a billet and if they're only doing half the work then that means the other half of the work's being done by their peers and they get pissed off about that and so

17:45 When you're having a conversation, and I'm not talking about yelling at someone or calling them out. I'm talking about when you're standing at their desk and you're handing them a package that has errors all in it. And you point out to them that this is unacceptable. Every single person around there is going to hear it. And they're going to go home with a morale boost because they know you know. And that is huge.

18:14 when it comes to being in the military and holding people accountable. So you have conversations on social media, not necessarily just for the person that you're having the conversation with, because everybody else is standing around listening. Everybody else is reading those posts. And within probably, I don't know.

18:42 Four hours yesterday, we had 200 more followers learning about Operation Gladio just from calling him out yesterday. I haven't even looked at the numbers today. But that's the reason why you do it. And again, I don't give a crap about the numbers for the numbers. I've shared with you. I've been very open with you. We get.

19:07 I think the last time was like $40 every two weeks, which does not even cover the book purchases. I don't do any of this for the money. As Cousin It says, she does it for the liquor or booze, whatever it is she's calling it today. Bourbon. Bourbon. I want to be as upfront and as honest. And the other point, which kind of overlaps the two stories together.

19:35 If you have something in your past that even remotely connects you to your subject matter, you need to be upfront. So can you imagine if we got through all of this and we've been together for two years exposing Operation Gladio and somebody on a podcast or in a post goes, hey, Colonel Towner.

20:02 How come you didn't tell everybody you lived in the middle of Operation Gladio in Italy? Weren't you there when they were doing that? And all of you would go, what the hell? Why did she tell us that? That's the reason why when you're covering a, and, you know, to be honest, we don't really know each other. We are operating collectively with our impression.

20:32 of people based on a social media platform. And the best thing to do when you're trying to be a leader and share information with people is to lead by example and put all of your stuff out there, be completely open and honest with people about what's going on, where this intersected with my career.

21:02 And it did. Yeah, see, already today after these guys did their thing this morning, we have a whole hundred, another 100 people following us. So it worked to the extent that it's going to work. And that's the reason why we do it. And I say that because I don't want you guys to get, I love it when you guys want to, but I don't want you to get emotionally invested in.

21:30 defending me or Cousin It or Bridget or even the subject. This is really all about education. And we're all big girls. These people don't hurt my feelings. They don't piss me off. There are things, some things that I care more about than other things. And you guys are very much aware of what those are because of my choice of language.

21:58 Trust me, I don't lose any sleep other than when I get those epiphanies like at four o'clock in the morning the other day. But I don't generally lose any sleep over any of this. My whole deal is I spent four years as an instructor. I think I have a talent of taking all of this information and presenting it in a user format. And then I also have invested in all of these resources where.

22:27 When a new story does come out, like the one that I just posted this morning, where we find an article, not only is that article was very well written, but because we've done so much more research, we can insert additional information into an already well-written article. And I would like at the end of today's show, if anyone who comes up and wants to take a mic,

22:58 I am looking for feedback on if that's an effective way of doing it. It's actually a lot easier for me to do it that way, as opposed to basically rewriting the entire thing with our stuff added in. So I'm just looking for some feedback.

23:22 I can guarantee you I will continue to some degree of doing that. But if that is cumbersome for everybody else, I will make an effort to not do it all the time. So that's the kind of feedback I'm looking for. All right. Before you start. Sure. Salute. That's all I can say. What I will tell you, these people that use.

23:49 uppercase letters and this that and the other it's a signal that they're butthurt so and sometimes making it public is the right way to go you and i both know that in the military there are times to be behind closed doors and there are times where it's got to be taken care of out front in front of everybody and i salute you for that thank you thank you

24:11 And Major Sarge over on Rumble, I see you. Thank you. Yeah, that was that David guy. He's saying he was trolling. Yeah, it definitely looked like that. All right. So we're going to move on to chapter 23. The title of it is Drowning of a President. And it starts off with a picture of AQ Khan.

24:40 who was the father of the Pakistani nuclear program and blamed by many for exporting nuclear technology throughout the Islamic world and beyond, like to places like North Korea. Khan had never been questioned by U.S. investigators, and there are strong indications his network received the blessing of the United States in exchange for Pakistani's assistance with the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan.

25:10 Now, we we've corroborated that on a couple of different occasions. That is absolutely the case. And also keep in mind that BCCI, the Pakistani, quote unquote, Pakistani bank that Abedi set up, but it was actually registered in Europe and ran out of the city of London. They are the ones that arranged the weapons exchange using the money laundered.

25:39 through the drug operations to send the nuclear switches, trigger mechanisms, if you will, over to Pakistan. So they definitely, the CIA was definitely involved in the exporting of nuclear technology. And we also know that France exported their nuclear

26:08 technology to Israel who built their nuclear program and then tested it in South Africa. We did that whole trail as well because most of those transactions were, I won't say most, some of those transactions of the weapon system pieces of it was handled by Nugent Hand Bank that was the Australia CIA bank.

26:36 that had general officers on the board of it. So, all right, to the book. The worst crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the capture of the Tehran embassy in 1979 and the taking of American hostages as early as 1972, which is the date BCCI Bank was created, FYI, Kamal Adom.

27:06 who was one of the financiers of the BCCI bank, had predicted to his friends that the Shah's effort to open up Iranian society would be fatal. He politely ignored the Shah's advice that the Saad family should consider making reforms and allowing public protest. However, many of Nixon, Ford's, and then Carter's advisors did not see, nor did not want to see, what

27:35 Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few who could and did. See what

28:06 Kamal Adom saw. He warned that when the revolution started, the Shah's army was not going to shoot fellow Iranians to keep the Shah on the peacock throne. He was all but ignored by Carter and the national security team. Now, again, let me just put this in perspective. This is a CIA guy who's going to be in on the October surprise during the election.

28:36 with Reagan. So that should not be a surprise to anyone. They can say that they told him and that he ignored it. And who knows, maybe he did because maybe they knew that they were the CIA. Who knows? Helms, along with Henry Kissinger and others, urged President Carter to support the Shah. Carter took their advice. In January 78, he called the Shah's government an island of stability.

29:07 And at the time, it did look like that from the outside. In a matter of months, the island would begin falling apart. In mid-78, the Shaw-sponsored newspaper campaign against the Ayatollah Khomeini triggered riots in Qom, Q-O-M, that's the name of the city, where Khomeini had lived before he went into exile. Over the next few months,

29:35 The unrest spread to other cities. By August, the city of Esapan was placed under martial law. Then the protests turned deadly. Several hundred Iranians were burned to death when a theater was torched. According to Corson and Sullivan, the CIA, unwilling to face up to the catastrophe that was unfolding, gave Carter no warning.

30:06 to abandon the Shah's failing regime even after martial law had been imposed in Tehran and hundreds of protesters had been gunned down by the SAVAK on what came to be known as Black Friday. Now, all of you guys that's been here this entire time, your antenna should have just went up because who was running the SAVAK? The CIA-trained assets. It was created.

30:35 by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence the Ayatollah Khomeini had come many years before.

31:03 in 1964 when the CIA arranged a safe haven for him in Iraq after he had briefly been imprisoned by the Sabah and exiled to Turkey. Now, this is very interesting again. For Helms and Shackley, the CIA agents, one of which posing as the ambassador, which is Helms, had a chance to influence Khomeini. And they...

31:34 brought him out of Iran, placed him in Iraq after the Savak. Hold on. I'll bring you back up, cousinette. So that's very, very interesting. And the fact that he was originally exiled to Turkey is very, very important because I sent you the co-host. Let me know if you get it. Okay.

32:16 Because Turkey at the time in the 70s was the host to the largest Operation Gladio network in the world called Gray Wolves. So the CIA takes him to Iraq and then on to Turkey for, quote unquote, safekeeping. Very, very important. Turkey has the largest military, second only to the U.S. in all of NATO.

32:46 and teeming with CIA people everywhere. The CIA arranged for the Iraqi regime to let Khomeini move to the holy city of Najjar, where he directed his campaign against the Shah. When Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq as vice president in 1968, he permitted the CIA, because they helped him get there,

33:13 to place a number of Iranian-born agents all around the Ayatollah. From the huge and beautiful gold-domed mosque, Khomeini was the most influential cleric in the region protected by the CIA. So he becomes almost like the mafia that we've talked about that the British set up in Egypt and in Israel.

33:42 Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of Mustafa remained a mystery. But many suspected that it was the Tavak that was responsible. When the son's death

34:11 was followed by an attack on the father by the Shah's information minister, the theological colleges shut down in protest inside of Iran. In January of the following year, 4,000 seminary students in Qom protested the Shah's actions. Shavak opened fire on the students. Dozens were killed.

34:43 And the people in Iran were outraged. Again, strategy of tension. According to Sarkis Solhanilian, who became Saddam's key arms dealer. All right, so SR-71, you might want to repost that. S-O-D-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. That Sarkis guy. Because we talked about him repeatedly through this book. He was set up.

35:12 in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is going to be buying both legitimate arms and covert arms. I'm sorry, Colonel. Could you spell that again? Sure. S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N.

35:45 And Khomeini presented a threat to Saddam's secular government. And so Saddam was receptive to the Shah's request that his guest might be happier outside of the country. In October 1978, which is later that year, Khomeini moved from, so they moved him initially then to Turkey and then they put him in Paris.

36:14 Several Iranians who had been on the CIA's payroll in the United States joined his staff in France. They're plotting as part of his staff, this is the CIA, for him to come back to Iran. And you remember what we discovered like in Cuba with the CIA training Castro at the same time they're supporting Batista, but Batista had fell out of favor.

36:46 And they're always grooming the next iteration of leaders in all of these countries. We found out in one of the stories that Saddam Hussein, once he becomes president of Iraq, had one of his closest allies was his defense minister. Unbeknownst to him originally, the CIA was grooming the defense minister.

37:17 to replace Saddam Hussein if he should get out of line. Well, one of Saddam Hussein's agents found out about that and provided him with some documents. And Saddam Hussein had the defense minister assassinated for plotting behind his back. So there is risk to people who do things like that to the CIA. But you always...

37:45 I can't tell you the number of times I've had conversations with people that say, well, the CIA installed him. So why would they be plotting to take him out if they're the ones that put him there? They have the next iteration within a relatively short period of time of the next guy that they will be grooming. Just like that's the reason why all of these people, the CIA embeds themselves in these universities that host all these international.

38:15 students, because they are there grooming those students to go back and spy on their countries for the CIA. We've ran across several of them. That was the whole purpose of Epstein at Harvard. They were grooming people, probably for other things too, but they were looking at people to be able to spy on behalf of intelligence agencies.

38:40 And you had the Michigan State University where they embedded CIA agents as staff that then deployed over to Vietnam under the guise of them working to set up the national police when in fact they were actually CIA agents setting up the basically terror cells that were going to take people up in the helicopters and, you know, shoot everybody in there except for the one to get them to talk, that type of thing.

39:10 We saw that same thing happening with Dan Mederon down in South America, the retired police chief from Richmond, Indiana, that he went down there and was teaching the national police in Latin America to torture people under the dictator that had been installed by the CIA agents during the coup.

39:38 locals ended up capturing him and killing him. So this is a thing I like to add where we've seen these patterns over and over because some of this stuff is unbelievable if you don't understand there's like five other examples of this stuff happening. So the CIA's hopes of keeping the Shah in power evaporated when the Iranian oil workers went on strike in October 1978. Now let me just

40:08 I also tell you what I told you yesterday about the oil companies. This is a British oil company that Standard Oil is partners with, a minority partnership, but they are partners with British Oil in the Iranian oil company. So if the workers went on strike, it's because they orchestrated the strike. They could have presented the strike by negotiating and bargaining with them.

40:38 So you always have to keep that in the forefront of your mind, especially once we realized how infiltrated these unions overseas are with American agitators, also CIA assets that we just exposed through several threads of the AFL and their quote-unquote international institute. In November, the Shah formed a military government.

41:08 while Khomeini announced from Paris that he was forming a government in exile. In December, millions participated in an anti-Shah demonstration throughout Iran. The Shah's last prime minister, whose name was Shaper Bakhtaria, tried at the Safari Club's request, which is a CIA front.

41:38 To save off the Islamic revolution by forming a new government. In January of 79, at the summit in Guadalupe. Isn't that interesting? I'm going to have to go look that up. I missed that the first time now that I'm tuned into Guadalupe in the World Anti-Communist League. That's crazy. The Western nations formally asked the Shah.

42:11 to leave Iran. A few weeks later, after 14 years in exile, Khomeini, with several CIA agents on his staff, returned to Iran, where he appointed Mehdi Barzagan to head the first Iranian provincial government. For the next few months, Carter was bombarded by friends of the Shahs, including Helms and Henry Kissinger, with requests to allow the Shah to come to the U.S. to have

42:42 advanced prostate cancer treatment. In September 1979, Carter approved the visit and the dying Shah was flown in. Almost immediately, it was apparent that his treatment was seen as a slap in the face to the Iranian people. On November 1979, 500 angry Iranians invaded the U.S. embassy compound and took 90 people hostage. Now, I guess you could probably make an argument since Helms

43:12 is CIA as well, that, I don't know, that could, that's a total assumption, that could have been part of the whole ratcheting up of the chaos. While some of the hostages were released two weeks later, 53 remained incarcerated, and Carter's human rights presidency and his Camp David triumph was seen as now a weakness.

43:40 And also something I didn't know until I did that thread the other day is that in the releasing, they released women and they released several black hostages because at the time they're radicalizing black Muslims inside the United States to groom them and send them to terrorist training camps as terrorists. Right. We read that in the last chapter. And so.

44:09 They did that in order to garner good PR, if you will, with the people that they are grooming in the United States to be part of this radical Islamist terror, though. As the Shah was falling from power in early 79, Erich von Marbog's price for rescuing

44:38 General Hassan Toufanian, who was the vice minister of defense for procurement, was to force Toufanian to sign a memorandum of understanding. In his book called October Surprise, Gary Sick described the importance of this document. Quote, it was indispensable for the U.S. initially to manage the complex next network of contracts and deliveries in the absence of.

45:08 no responsible authority in Tehran, then to handle Iran's frozen military assets during the hostage crisis, and finally to resolve the disputed claims of the two parties at a special tribunal established at the Hague in 1981, which of course is after the Reagan takes office, as part of the negotiated agreement for release of all of the hostages.

45:36 One week after the memo was signed in February 1979, the Shah's Imperial Guard was defeated. The memorandum negotiated by von Marbog amounted to a power of attorney that gave the United States government the authority to terminate all Iranian military contracts. This document was the reason the Iranians, now facing a war with Iraq, were in desperate need of armaments.

46:04 The hand of Shackley and von Marbog was all over what may have been the first contact with the so-called Iranian moderates, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, one of the most powerful clerics in the revolution and a disciple of Khomeini's. He was a close associate of the Teufani.

46:33 deputy minister of defense. And also to Tufanian's named, I guess, the guy that's going to stand in for him by the name of Ahmed Haidari. And let's see, Bashetti quickly arranged for Haidari's release from prison.

47:06 One of Hadari's most important responsibilities for the new regime was to act as a middleman in all clandestine deals with Israel. Because we're going to be coming up on the Iran-Contra, which used Israel as a cutout. The cozy relationship between Iran and Israel had reached its peak under the Shah in 77, when Iran had agreed to finance sophisticated weapon systems with Israel. And by the way,

47:38 It looks like all of that financing was done by BCCI. Under the auspices of General Tufanian, Iran had provided Israel huge amounts of foreign exchange in large land areas on which to test new military weapons. One of those weapon systems was a surface-to-surface missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.

48:08 Israeli's nuclear program, which had already produced a dozen nuclear weapons by 1977, was being partially funded by Iranian petrodollars, according to an Iranian mullah who worked for Hadari and wishes to remain anonymous. Just before the Shah fell, Tufanian authorized the last 200 million

48:37 oil money to be paid to Israel. However, at the Shah's bidding, he had operated the program so secretly that when the revolution took over, they could find no records of this project. It was not on the short-term money loss. Sorry. It was not the short-term monetary loss that concerned the Israelis.

49:07 But the loss of their 20-year relationship with Iran, their only major trading partner in the region, Israelis felt that they had to find a way to get along with the new regime. A friendly relationship with Iran was a cornerstone of their entire foreign policy in the area. Now, let's pause here for just a second. Iran, who is basically a vassal state of the U.S. at this point, because we basically installed the Shah by overthrowing Mosaddegh, right?

49:38 And we created their national police, the SABAC. So they're basically a vassal state of the U.S. And they have all of this military technology exchange, which would kind of mean the U.S. was facilitating Israel getting nuclear weapons. Just saying. On April 11, 1980, Jimmy Carter gave the National Security Council the...

50:08 order to carry out a mission to rescue the hostages. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned in protest. On April 24th, the mission commenced. Nearly everything that could go wrong went wrong. A plane collision at a remote point killed eight of the rescuers before they could get near a hostage and the mission was canceled. Carter was humiliated. I'm just going to leave that there.

50:39 Just three days after the rescue, because we know they don't want these hostages rescued, and even when they could have gotten the hostages rescued, they negotiated to leave them there so that they could penalize Carter for that. Just three days after the rescue mission failed, Brzezinski pressed Carter for a new plan. Carter was hesitant, but Brzezinski persisted.

51:05 General David Jones, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned his most knowledgeable officers concerning clandestine operations. That happened to be, unfortunately, General Richard Secord, who basically is a CIA asset, who doesn't want Carter to stay there because Carter fired almost a thousand CIA officers and they're all pissed off at him.

51:34 Secord now headed the Air Force's international program at the Pentagon, which is like the mill-to-mill sales. He seems the perfect candidate to plan a second rescue mission. No, he wasn't. We had special operators. Secord was the last person you would have wanted doing that. He is basically a salesman for military industrial complex for the United States. That's what his job was. He was not the person you wanted in a special operations.

52:04 hostage rescue mission. General James Vaught was the nominal commander and Secord's deputy commander. Jones made it clear that it was Secord's show. Such a rescue, if successful, would have been a tremendous boon to the Carter administration, which is why you know it's not going to work. According to Corson, one of the CIA guys who wrote this book, any hopes that

52:38 Another rescue operation could catch the Republicans unaware, however, was effectively erased when Jones' assignment of Secord to head the operation. Secord asked for time to plan the mission and concluded that a fast, massive strike would be the only way for it to succeed. Now the Iranians were on alert. Secord personally briefed the SecDef, and you're not ever going to even believe who the SecDef is at the time.

53:10 Howard Brown. Harold Brown, sorry. Harold Brown. Harold Brown's the guy that eventually gets killed in the military aircraft that was on Clinton's staff. Brown agreed that Secord would get access to a wide variety of units from several military services. And one of the problems with that is they didn't plan together. They didn't do training together routinely.

53:41 which is why all of this is a bad idea. Sometimes planning for an operation like this should have taken a lot longer. Maybe the operation would not be ready in time for Carter to give it the order. If nothing else, the Republicans had someone inside that they could warn that Carter had his October surprise in the works.

54:08 In the end, it never happened. There was no second rescue attempt because it got called off. Carter's most secret operation were thoroughly penetrated by Bush seniors, partisans, not just the cord who would later go on to be part of Iran-Contra working for Vice President Bush, but also many other National Security Council staff. Gary Sick, S-I-C-K, worked.

54:40 at the National Security Council during the period when he wrote the book October Surprised, that in the Carter White House, quote, there were individuals who were committed to the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the replacement of him by Ronald Reagan. Using code names and clandestine reporting channels, they provided information about deliberations within the White House and among the National Security Council staff concerning the hostages and other policy matters.

55:08 One of the sources stole a copy of President Carter's briefing book, which the Republican campaign then used to prepare Reagan for his debate with Carter on October 28th. And I actually remember that happening. William Casey and others in the Reagan-Bush campaign believed that there were two major events on which the election would hinge. One was the single debate scheduled between Carter and Reagan.

55:36 a week before the election in Cleveland, and the other was the possible release of the hostages. The theft of Carter's briefing book basically defeated one of the legs, being the debate, because, of course, Reagan's going to know everything that Carter's going to say. According to Robert Crowley, it was Robert Gates, then a low-level CIA analyst, who probably provided the contents of the briefing book. The same.

56:06 Robert Gates that we know ends up as a reward, the CIA director. Yeah, that same Robert Gates. There is no question Gates had access to it. There is no question Casey got it. Gates gets the job as the official White House liaison to the Reagan election campaign. His responsibility is to go out and brief Casey on what's happening.

56:34 The same as LBJ did with Nixon. So Gates has a reason to be going over to Virginia to talk to Casey and to James Baker. On the second issue about the October surprise, the most important information Reagan and Bush campaign was getting from Shackley and his friends concerning the Carter administration was the arms trade for the American hostages.

57:01 The first approach to Carter administration on this issue of arms for hostages came up in April 1980, the 178th day of captivity for Colonel Charles Wesley Scott. Scott spoke fluent Prussian and was one of the most informed of the American hostages concerning Iran. Scott had reported to Erich von Marbog when von Marbog was in charge.

57:30 in Iran in the 1970s as the Deputy Defense, oh crap, Defense Security Assistance Agency. So basically, this Colonel Wesley Scott is the same kind of arrangement that we saw with the military officers with Otto Skorzeny out of the Spain consulate. Not a good thing.

58:03 After the failed rescue attempt, Scott was abruptly moved from Tehran to Tabriz for a very special meeting May 1980, May 1st, May Day, in what had been the American consulate in Tabriz. Colonel Scott met with, I'm not even going to say this guy's name.

58:34 It's, I'm going to spell his first name, H-O-J-J-A-T. His middle name is Muhammad Ali. And then I'm going to spell his last name, K-H-A-M-E-N-E apostrophe I. He has like other names in the middle of those, a very long name. He was the spokesperson for the revolutionary government.

59:03 He told Scott in Persian of the ill-fated rescue operation. Then, to Scott's surprise, he asked him how quickly military supplies could resume once Scott was released back to the United States. He had traveled nearly 400 miles to see this particular hostage because of a growing reality of the war with Iraq, which ended up starting...

59:33 on September 22nd. This was May 1st. On April 1st, so this meeting happens on May 1st, the month before an Iranian had attempted to assassinate two of Saddam Hussein's closest loyalists. The tension between the two nations rose as more acts of violence followed that. So the Iranian government

1:00:03 is looking for U.S. weapons, and they know this colonel is like the underground conduit for those weapons. The story of the Hashmini brothers, Cyrus and Jasmid, did not begin with their claims concerning the October surprise. The Shah and the Savak had persecuted their families.

1:00:33 during the so-called White Revolution in 1963. Cyrus and Jamshed had both left Iran and had become involved in a shadowy world of international arms deals. While they remained close to the anti-Shah clerics, they also had connections in American intelligence through the Iranian Rear Admiral Ahmad Madani. He was an old associate,

1:01:04 of Edwin Wilson's Von Marbog and Secords. So, in other words, he's a covert weapons dealer with the CIA. In 1970, Madani, openly outspoken against the Shah, had been exiled on corruption charges. After the Shah was deposed, Madani returned and took up both the defense and naval portfolios of the first

1:01:34 revolutionary government. He was also assigned as military commander in the Kutsan Stan region along the Shat al-Arab waterway, where hostilities with Iraq was expected to begin. When Cyrus Kashimi

1:01:58 American lawyer in Paris called a colleague in Washington offering his client's expertise on what was currently happening in Iran, i.e. intel. The colleague wrote a letter to the deputy secretary, Warren Christopher, of state. Almost immediately, Kashimi's, despite his dubious history as an arms dealer and gambler, became the Carter administration's only reliable source of information.

1:02:28 and I'm not even going to say that's reliable, on the Iranian government. Carter administration officials found his information credible, according to Gary Sick, but they had nothing to base that on. In March of 1980, Jamshid Hashmini registered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. for one of his regular briefings with the State Department intelligence officer.

1:02:55 No one else except his brother Cyrus was supposed to know what he was doing. So when someone knocked on his hotel door, he was surprised. At the door was a businessman named Roy Furmark, F-U-R-M-A-R-K, who had business connections to Cyrus. With him was a large man he introduced as William Casey, CIA.

1:03:25 Jamshid expressed surprise to Furmark and Casey at their unexpected appearance. During the meeting, Jamshid phoned Cyrus, who assured him that Casey was reliable. Jamshid, who by the time this book was put together, had died, told Gary Sick and others in 1990 that Casey, in March of 1980, had just become Reagan's campaign manager.

1:03:59 So Reagan's campaign manager is talking to the Shah's intelligence people, and that's crazy, and shady people. On March 21st, Cyrus and Jamshid got together at Cyrus's home in Connecticut. Cyrus told Jamshid that his contact with Casey

1:04:30 was through John Shaheen, I don't know how you say this guy's name either, Shaheen, S-H-A-H-E-E-N, Shaheen, with whom Cyrus had been involved already on several oil refinery deals. Because again, people, we had so much dealings with Iran.

1:05:01 both officially and unofficially, because of oil. Shaheen had also been, at one time, the boss of Roy Furmark. On that particular weekend, Cyrus told his brother that he believed the Republicans would be coming to power and that it would be their own best interest to be friends. Since Carter's only reliable source of information on Iran was Gates,

1:05:34 He decided to become basically a double agent to the Reagan-Bush campaign. Casey asked the Shahimi brothers to arrange a meeting with someone in Iran who had the authority to deal on the hostages. The Shahimi connection did not reach to Khomeini himself, but they went far enough. The Admiral Modani arranged a meeting.

1:06:04 with a cleric by the name of Ayatollah Makdini Kurubi, who had close ties to Khomeini's son. According to Gary Sick, the Hashmini brothers also offered the Carter administration a meeting as well. When Donald Gregg, keep that name in mind, because Donald Gregg was Felix Rodriguez's handler for Vice President Bush and Richard Secord.

1:06:33 During the Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg, he's CIA, a Carter National Security Council aide, again, he's CIA, who had nothing to do with Iran, went out of his way to see Cyrus Kashimi. It should have seemed very suspect. Donald Gregg had been a deputy of Shackley's in Vietnam. The spring of 1980 found him on Carter's.

1:07:03 national security staff. Gregg's official job was to coordinate intel in East Asia. At about that time, the first rescue mission collapsed. Gregg attended a meeting in New York with Cyrus Hashimi's bank at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. As Gregg carried out this clandestine rendezvous, no one in the Carter White House was aware of his connections to George Bush.

1:07:33 who's also CIA. Former National Security aide David Aaron told the Village Boys, I think most people were unaware of those connections. They were definitely unaware of it. Gregg first met Bush at a dinner in Tokyo in 1967. So, you know, that's like, and who knows if they knew each other before then, but at least 1967. When Gregg was a CIA officer and Bush,

1:08:05 was a new congressman from Houston. Seven years later, when Bush headed the American liaison office in Beijing, Gregg cemented their friendship by journeying from Seoul, South Korea, where he was the CIA station chief to Beijing and briefed Bush. In 1976, when Bush was DCI, Gregg was assigned the sensitive job of CIA.

1:08:34 liaison to Congressman Otis Pike's probe into the CIA's wrongdoing, which, by the way, was a joke. Not because of Pike, but because of the CIA. Now, keep in mind that Seoul, South Korea in the 1970s is the hotbed of the World Anti-Communist League with Chiang Kai-shek over in Taiwan, both of which are dictatorships. We shouldn't even have had an embassy there.

1:09:04 because they were killing people left and right. According to Gary Sick, the other Carter NSC officials who wish to remain confidential, there were no official reason for Greg to meet with Hashimi in New York at all. Hashimi took Greg to lunch just around the corner from Hashimi's bank. According to Hashimi and his brother, Greg discussed

1:09:32 openings that the Carter administration and the Hashimis were trying to make with the new Iranian government. Years later, Greg denied that he had any contact with any of them. He did not deny that he had contact with his old boss, Ted Shackley, though. During this period, while Shackley and Clines had no official position at all in the Reagan administration, numerous associates, including Shirley Brill,

1:10:01 Chi Chi Quintero and Douglas Flatter told the FBI that both men had been meeting with George Bush on a regular basis because they're arranging their own October surprise, which is to basically ensure that the hostages don't get released. Meanwhile, the Hashimi arranged for their relative, for the a relative of Khomeini's to come to Madrid in July of 1980 for a clandestine meeting.

1:10:30 at a hotel with a Carter administration official. That meeting opened a dialogue and President Bonnie Sauter reacted favorably enough that he agreed to begin a serious negotiation of releasing the hostages. I think this was a bait and switch. Just my opinion. The last week of July of 1980, the meetings with Hashimi had arranged for the Republicans took place. So they're working two deals.

1:10:59 They're basically going to string along the Carter administration thinking he's going to get a deal and he's not. But at the same time, they're working the deal with the Reagan administration to hold on to him until January. Gary Sixth report that the meetings included William Casey and a man named Shafimi identified as Shafimi identified Donald Gregg in the meeting with William Casey.

1:11:34 But there was an additional member of the delegation, and y'all are never going to believe this name, Robert Gray. Do y'all remember the Robert Gray? Anybody? Cousinette, you remember who Robert Gray is? Robert Gray. She's probably shooting a squirrel. Robert Gray is the PR guy that ran the brothel as a quote-unquote club in downtown D.C.

1:12:08 to trap people and blackmail them, who worked at Hill & Knowlton and eventually opens his own PR firm. And Hill & Knowlton is the CIA front company that they hid all of the CIA officers that they needed to pretend were former CIA officers. They use their address a lot for communications overseas to undercover CIA officers as well. Plus,

1:12:35 they actually employed CIA officers pretending to be PR people all over the world. That Robert Gray was with Donald Gregg and William Casey to go arrange the October surprise. The following week, Gray officially joined the Reagan-Bush campaign as their director of communications, like in their PR guy. After joining the campaign,

1:13:08 Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October surprise, Gary Sick wrote what is widely accepted as the Hashimi's account of the meeting. This is a quote.

1:13:38 opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the two countries, he said, as long as the hostages were there. Karubi asked if the U.S. government would be willing on its part to return the Iran's financial and military assets.

1:14:07 Casey said that that would be impossible at this time since the Republicans weren't in power, but it could be done after they come to power. As the arms, perhaps that could be done through a third country, which we now know as Israel, unquote. According to Sick, Casey asked if the hostages could be well treated until the moment of their relief. If Iran could give that assurance and if the hostages were released as a gift.

1:14:35 To the new administration, the Republicans would be eternally grateful and give Iran its strength back. Dick wrote Hashemi as saying that Karubi's response was that he had no authority to make this commitment, that he would have to seek instructions from Khomeini. Remarkably, Casey, according to Hashemi, then played on the Iranians' hatred of Carter.

1:15:01 Casey said that he had no objection if the Iranians continued to deal with the Carter administration, but he personally had washed his hands of Carter. Hashimi said that Karubi ended the meeting by saying in Persian, I think we are opening a new era. I am talking to someone who knows how to do business, unquote. On August 12th, Karubi had yet another meeting with Casey, according to Hashimi.

1:15:29 This time, the news he carried was electrifying. According to Hashimi, Khomeini had agreed to Casey's terms. The hostages would be released on the day of Reagan's inauguration, though the Iranians would continue to go through the motions with the Carter administration. As payment, Karubi told Casey,

1:15:52 Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. According to Kashimi, the next day, Casey agreed to Iran's terms. He named Cyrus Hashimi the middleman to handle the arms deals.

1:16:23 Menachie, a former Israeli intelligence agency. And I'm going to put former in air quotes. There were four sessions with Casey and more meetings were set up for October. Israel would be the unnamed third country. Cyrus Hashimi purchased a Greek ship and began making arms deliveries for shipments of ammunition valued by Hashimi at $150 million from the Israeli port.

1:16:53 to Bandar Abbas. The Israelis were paid through a letter of credit, and Hashemi received, according to CIA sources, a $7 million commission on the deal. That letter of credit was issued by BCCI. The Hashemi brothers' recollections and six reporting of the negotiations were denied by Bush.

1:17:26 Bush claimed successfully that he had not personally been involved. And that's a cop out, right? We know that. They don't have to be personally involved. They send their emissaries to do the dirty work for them. On the days in Casey, let's see. And then one other person said that, oh, Casey couldn't have possibly been there because there was a penciling in of a meeting.

1:17:58 for him in England, but there's no photos or proof he ever went to England. And there's travel vouchers and airplane tickets for everything, so there would have been proof had it been true. Casey had a mysterious aide by the name of Tom Carter. Carter cannot be found anywhere these days. No paper trail of him, nothing.

1:18:23 What is known is that Carter had worked for Casey for years and that after the 1980 election, Carter had an office across the hall from Casey's at the old executive office building. Carter was forced to come forward and give testimony on behalf of the defense in the trial of Robert Sensi, S-E-N-S-I, who was the former U.S. manager of the Royal Kuwaiti Airlines. Sensi had been arrested while he was on the run in England.

1:18:53 He was charged with stealing millions of dollars from the airline since he was ultimately convicted in the late 80s on 11 of 16 counts. Had he been an everyday criminal in the District of Columbia, he would have gotten 30 years, not today.

1:19:15 Instead, a judge who had been appointed by Richard Nixon sentenced Sensei to a mere six months with the credit of four months already served in England. Adding to the mystery, the Royal Kuwaiti Airlines did not attempt to recover any of their money. Why did this man deserve such special treatment? Because Robert Sensei arranged in 1980 for the Royal Kuwaiti planes to ferry back and forth.

1:19:46 to London, Madrid, and Paris, the negotiators dealing with William Casey and the September surprise. The Thatcher regime, already deeply beholden to the Arabs, were the host. A Royal Kuwaiti jet collected the negotiating party from Madrid and flew them to London, and from London, Casey made it clear that his representatives in all future negotiations would be calm.

1:20:16 Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Arab waterway near Basra. But the lightning-fast victory Saddam Hussein

1:20:45 Expected didn't happen. Iran's need for weapons was acute and critical. The Hashemi brothers were not the only ones making overtures. In late September 1980, a bizarre meeting took place at the El Avant Plaza in Washington. Former Marine Colonel Robert McFarlane, another Iran-Contra guy,

1:21:08 had taken the national security aid. He was the national security aid to Texas Senator John Tower. And y'all can post, if you wouldn't mind, SR-71, what ends up happening to John Tower. If you just grab his Wikipedia page, not good. He had urged Richard Allen, the Reagan campaign national security expert, to meet with a mysterious Middle Easterner.

1:21:37 who had claimed that he had helped the Republicans get the hostages relieved. Allen said that he was the first reluctant but finally acquiesced to the meeting because Tower was a close friend of George Bush. Allen also liked McFarlane, who had served in the Nixon and Ford administration under Brent Scrocoff and Henry Kissinger. Allen and McFarlane took Lawrence Silberman,

1:22:07 another important Reagan supporter, along to the meeting. Later, none of the participants could remember the name of the guy who they met with. Isn't that weird? Allen had claimed that a memo he wrote about the meeting is missing. Silberman said that the Middle Easterner never suggested a quid pro quo of arms for the release of the hostages, but simply offered that President Carter would not benefit from the release.

1:22:37 Silberman said that he told the Middle Easterner that the country has only one president at a time. Hosheng Lavi, L-A-V-I, was an expatriate Iranian arms dealer, has claimed that he was the mysterious Middle Easterner. The Lavi family had done tens of millions of dollars in arms sales over the years. Lavi claimed that he had contacted the Reagan-Bush campaign.

1:23:07 through James Baker. But Lobby was also one of the arms brokers that Edwin Wilson used, along with Richard Secord and von Marbach. Lobby said that what was discussed at the meeting was F4 parts in exchange for the hostages. Lobby agreed that Silverman, Allen, and McFarlane rejected his offer, but not because of outrage over the fact that he was suggesting it.

1:23:38 Lobby said it was because that they were already in touch with the Iranians themselves. Soberman, Allen, and McFarlane insisted that Lobby was not the Middle Easterner who approached them. But after Lobby died, reporter Robert Perry obtained a copy of his calendar for 1980, which not only confirmed the meeting, but that an earlier call between him and James Baker. Adding credibility to Lobby is that

1:24:07 After the Republicans turned him down, he approached a third-party campaign of John Anderson through his attorney and former CIA counsel Mitchell Rogevin. Rogevin confirms that Lobby had also made the same offers to the CIA, of which those guys were. Perhaps the final steal on President Carter's fate was provided by the Thatcher government in England. British customs investigator

1:24:37 Barry Riley, who arrested British gunrunner Ian Smalley, S-M-A-L-L-E-Y, said that Smalley threatened on June 18, 1982, which is two years in the future from this time, to reveal that the British Ministry of Defense was involved with fulfilling the Republican pledge of arms to

1:25:06 Iran in exchange for delaying the hostages. So this guy is saying what actually happened. What makes Smalley's account believable is the fact that he provided Raleigh his notes on the shipments years before they were ever made public. Why would Thatcher engage in such an enterprise with the Republicans? Kamal Adom is the answer. Kamal Adom, of course.

1:25:34 is with BCCI, whose main bank is in the city of London. By the time Adam had moved many of his operations to London, to include BCCI, along, and they were very good friends with Thatcher and her husband and son. Mark Thatcher goes on to do intelligence work as well, Margaret Thatcher's son. So, according to the arms dealer, Adam brought Mark Thatcher

1:26:02 into the arms deals. So it was that arrangement that got Margaret Thatcher's son into the arms deals. He was involved in the arms deals in the Falkland Islands. And it says, Kamal's system of cultivating the sons of politicians was excellent. Gosh, does that ring a bell? He did it with Mark Thatcher. He also did it with George.

1:26:30 both Jeb Bush and George Bush Jr. of George Bush Sr. They also got George Bush Sr.'s brother involved. And as for Jimmy Carter, it would take him more than a decade to figure out the truth on how his presidency actually ended. For Carter, the realization that he had been cheated out of the presidency came with a publication of an April 1st, 1991, of a former Iranian president.

1:27:00 Bonnie Sautter. In his book, My Turn to Speak, I ran the revolution and secret deals with the U.S. This is a quote from his book. I have proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980. The sole purpose of this was to handicap the Carter re-election bid by preventing the hostages being released before the American elections in November 1980. And then he names.

1:27:29 a whole bunch of people that were involved, and said that they played key roles in proposing this agreement to the Reagan team. Even before Reagan won the election in November 1980, the stage had been set not just for the release of the American hostages in Iran, but also for what would be known as the Iran Contra. Shackley still maintained his close ties to Israeli intelligence, as well as the new regime in Iran. Israel was once again established.

1:27:58 ties with Iran. For some members of the private intelligence network, the dawn of the Reagan-Bush administration meant that it was time to seek justice for their unceremonious ouster from the intelligence community by President Carter. The destruction of Carter's presidency can hardly be blamed on the secret intelligence network alone, though. Besides the foreign policy quote-unquote disasters, according to the CIA, there were severe problems with domestic

1:28:28 with runaway inflation and double digit unemployment. Well, the runaway inflation happened as a result of the coordinated oil issues causing the inflation. Complicating matters further, Carter had made powerful enemies among the intelligence officials, both in the U.S. and in Israel. That was a fatal flaw. All right.

1:28:59 That's it. Sorry about going long. I did want to get that whole chapter in because it's a doozy and it was not one that you could easily break up. That to me is kind of the highlight of this whole book because it tells pieces of the Carter Reagan story. And I've heard all about them flying Bush, you know, in some secret aircraft over to a meeting in Paris and all that other stuff.

1:29:28 I had never heard those pieces of the pie and the fact that they had found calendars and other cooperating and that Iranian officials had released books that gives you time dates and names of the people that everybody knew to be involved and how all of the Iran-Contra people were involved in the Iran hostage.

1:29:59 October surprise. That blew my mind away. All right. Anybody want Mike to come up? You're welcome to come up. While we're waiting on them, SR-71, Cousin It, y'all have anything? Yes, ma'am. I most certainly do. Of course, I'm one of the old fogies in this cadre here, and I lived through all that stuff. I was in the Marine Corps during the time the hostages were taken.

1:30:51 And I recall to this day when it happened early on, I was a Lance Corporal at the time. But the thought that ran through my head at that point in time was those people were going to be there for over a year. And of course, this was during the Carter administration before Reagan was coming in.

1:31:24 It was not unusual to see people with days marking the number of days hostages were held in their car windows. Do you remember what else they did? That sticks out more to me than anything else. Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. Yes, that was a song that also came out during that time. Yellow ribbons on every tree.

1:31:56 tree in every neighborhood. Yellow ribbons everywhere. That's what I remember. And along with that time, when you talk about the oil crisis, I'm sitting here thinking about that for a minute, but it was also during that time the oil spiked that all of a sudden legislation was passed that finally got the Alaska pipeline started.

1:32:22 Now, what I find ironic about the Alaska pipeline is the Alaska pipeline was completely funded by private enterprise. So something tells me in this mix of bags that's going on, there was some definite worry about what was happening in the Middle East and oil. Well, I think there were some private individuals that realized that the country was being manipulated.

1:32:55 Because, see, if you're in the oil industry, you know that the entire oil scarcity that happened in the 1970s to destroy Jimmy Carter's presidency was manufactured because they know that all of those concessions, as we said yesterday, are actually owned by Western oil companies. They had total control over it.

1:33:23 The fact that that entire thing was, and it manipulated a presidency. I do believe that the offshoot of that was the private people getting together and going, what the hell? We can't leave ourselves because the government's not going to be involved in that because they like having control. That's a good way to think about it. Yeah. Miles, go ahead. Good afternoon, Colonel.

1:33:54 Yeah, I lived during that period too. So I don't know if the hostage crisis was organic. I think it was manipulated because you're talking about strategy of tension and distraction. So Ted Koppel on Nightline every night, it was day 132. So it went on for so long every night.

1:34:22 So you got back from work, and you turned on the TV late. So it sat in your brain overnight. You actually dreamed about it. But I think that that was kind of manipulated. Well, obviously, you just read all the stuff that was being manipulated. And they were probably wringing their hands, these agencies, because we were totally distracted from stuff that they were really doing.

1:34:51 And but just what's going on now, I just want to say that pieces on the game board are being moved before the inauguration. So you'll see a whole bunch of stuff happen before the inauguration. And Colonel, just so you know, I'm making a video of how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and I'm going to send it to Alpha. Love it. Bless your heart. Thank you so much. That's so funny. Make sure.

1:35:24 that you tag me on that so I can tag all the ladies of the show. That's brilliant, Miles. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I'm just a little confused about the whole oil thing. And this is why. And maybe you can clarify it because you're really smart. So once Iraq was taken.

1:35:55 All that oil was, it's not American. It's not American businesses. It was like sold off or something. I don't know. Like China businesses. What do you mean once Iraq was taken? Taken where? No, taken when, you know, the most recent, like Dick Cheney took it. So, no.

1:36:27 So first of all, let me see if I can explain this to you. And let's not use Iraq. Let's just use, let's use Iran. Iran oil fields are, all world oil fields are, 99% of them, are grant.

1:36:58 oil companies that are not their own concessions. And that concession says, in the case of Iran back in the early 50s, that the British oil, which becomes BP, gets 86 cents of every dollar worth of profit off of the oil sales. The Iranian citizens on their own oil got to keep 14 cents.

1:37:29 So generally, like in Chile, same thing happened with the mines down there. The copper mines granted a concession to American company Freeport to come down there. Now, most of the time they would use local workers under the supervision. They were never in responsible positions. They were never told they were laborers. And so the concessions.

1:38:00 control the production of the oil because you're basically signing a lease. It's like having a well on your property and telling your neighbor that they get to take all your water. And when they sell your water, they've got to give you a certain percentage of the sales. And you're beholding to your neighbor, to be honest, because you're not out there watching them pull all of the water out and you have no...

1:38:26 freaking clue how much water they're taking out of your your well and so if you sign a lease that's usually like decades long like 30 year 40 year leases these were concessions is what they're called and the concession was for BP and Iran's case to

1:38:49 Drill the oil, sell the oil, and write, I ran a $14 check for every dollar. So in the middle of a war, the British Petroleum Oil Company's concession doesn't change. They're still pumping the oil.

1:39:11 They're still deciding where the oil's going after it's refined. And they're responsible for the shipment of it. They're responsible for the selling of it. And all they do is write the host country a check. So in the case of Iraq, whoever had the oil concession when we invaded it is still there pumping oil, which is why those people went and caught all of the oil wells on fire.

1:39:40 for them to stop stealing the oil from Iraq and basically made the concession nil and void. That's why they set all those oil rigs in the pumping areas in Iraq on fire. Who did? Who set them on fire? I don't know. I wasn't physically there. They were all set on fire. There were allegations both ways that it was the Iraqis that did it so that the U.S. couldn't continue stealing their oil.

1:40:10 That's what the primary belief is. Because their whole thing was that they were pissed off at all of that. And that's what happened during the Iran-Iraq war. There are Western countries still with concessions pumping oil out of that. And that's why the whole thought that we as a society in America believed that the...

1:40:39 Oil, quote unquote, embargo and all of that other shit was real. Looking back on it, knowing what I know now, it's laughable. It was never real because of how I now know the oil deals are worked and how the selling of it goes and everything else. All along. Go ahead. Yeah. Just to pick up on what SR 71 was saying about the oil issue around 1980.

1:41:08 I read an amazing, just utterly mind-blowing book called The Oil Follies, 1970 to 1980. That's The Oil Follies, 1970 to 1980 by Robert Scheer. I think it's spelled S-C-H-E-E-R. It's an utterly mind-blowing book, such so that I'm just flabbergasted.

1:41:35 And it's just so important to understand because the 1970s is such a foggy decade that's deliberately fogged up because it's kind of like the way I schematize it. It's like the post-assassinations decade in which the CIA is consolidating the control that they had following the major assassinations and to the point where by 1980, it's sheer autopilot. So there's that.

1:42:03 I also just wanted to comment, you know, given everything we see going on right now where the deep state or CIA is kind of setting the table for Trump and kind of tremendously qualifying the conditions that the new administration will be faced. I mean, you obviously alluded to the 1980 October surprise on today's show.

1:42:27 The other October surprise that also exemplifies this is the 1968 October surprise, which I know you know about and probably talked about somewhere else. But I think it's important maybe we make some comparisons between the 80 October surprise and the 1968 October surprise. Not just because they are sometimes called the October surprises, but they really show the kind of shenanigans that the deep state does. And we can have very strong historical.

1:42:57 record to show that the CIA is building a kind of continuity that sets the stage for the new president in ways designed to really limit the maneuverability of the new elected administration. If possible, I'll just post some in the articles by one of my favorite researchers, Jim DiEugenio, on the 1968

1:43:24 October surprise. As you know, Colonel, that involved our hero, Senator John Tower, once again as liaison between the Nixon campaign and the South Vietnam government. There's a lot of evidence showing that this really went on, etc., etc. So again, running with the theme of the deep state continuity, I think it's really important to look at these October surprises.

1:43:54 Now, that's an excellent point. And isn't it weird how Tower's name just keeps coming up? And by the way, sorry for interrupting. You know, John Tower also had key records from Lee Harvey Oswald's mom to Senator Tower in 1960 when he was in when Oswald was in the Soviet Union in 1960 saying, you know, basically, what the heck is going on here?

1:44:25 And with Oswald's mom saying that she thought that this was an intelligence operation. So that's yet another sensitive area that might give cause some negative turbulence for Senator Tower, who again was killed either the day before or the day after Pennsylvania Senator John Hines, who and again, those two were the first two.

1:44:51 to question H.W. Bush about the Iran-Contra. And those questions, they were being re-questioned or about to be about contradictions between their initial statement to Senator Hines and Senator Tower versus some of Bush's later campaigns. And that represented a kind of campaign speed bump, as it were, for the H.W. Bush presidential campaign in 1992. And yet Tower still was on.

1:45:21 Bush's intelligence advisory board during Desert Storm. I mean, up until his death, which is really weird. So, yeah. And I find it interesting that he was in Senate, Texas Senate politics at the same time LBJ was with all of the shenanigans that LBJ pulled off.

1:45:57 Right. Because he had his own hit squad. Let's see. Hi. Good afternoon, Colonel. Thank you for the mic. As I've been listening to you, I catch you off and on. I'm sorry I missed some of your your wonderful spaces, but I try to catch up when I can. I keep hearing a pattern that of of an inculcation.

1:46:29 that accompanies all of these events, such as when you mentioned the yellow ribbons. I was alive at that time, and I very much remember the yellow ribbons. And I put a little thread together of how inculcation is a little different, maybe, than brainwashing and mind control. It's such a long-term, subtle process from the time where

1:46:58 born. Even my child said to me one day that they were affected by how I was affected at 9-11. And so my trauma is passed on like that. But it's even deeper than that. They're affecting our subconscious and how we think about everything. So I wondered...

1:47:26 because there's a couple things I wonder if you have heard lately. The one thing is turn the page. The newscaster, the CNN person, said that to President Trump, and they said that all through.

1:47:40 Kamala's campaign and they used the arms with it and everything. And they have always these devices, even with Notre Dame, they kept mentioning the fraternity and everything they were saying was almost just like 9-11, how what they did affected the whole world. So not only are they taking over countries and drug trafficking and all this, they're inculcating us at the same time. So I wondered if you had any thoughts on that. Thank you. Well,

1:48:10 It's definitely true. I mean, we've talked about how the the and it's in many cases trauma induced. Right. So they will, for example, the whole nuclear weapons use in World War Two. And then throughout the 50s and 60s, everybody had to as a kid had to hide under their desk under the. And, you know, when you tell a kid that.

1:48:39 You've got to get under your desk because the possibility that someone out there in the world hates you and is going to kill you, that's traumatic to little kids. And the same thing with the Iranian hostages. So then, you know, oh, well, here's what we're all going to do. We're going to go out and tie a ribbon as if that ribbon has anything to do with the fact that our government just arranged for.

1:49:04 people to be kidnapped and held hostage so you can get rid of the duly elected president. So, yeah, I do see a lot of that. And so it's and and now if you spend any time on it, which is why I don't, it's inferiorating because you you have something like 9-11 happen and then they tell you, oh, my God, you've got to go down and sign up.

1:49:35 Otherwise, you know, you're not patriotic or whatever. And no matter what our military does, you have to be supportive of our military, even if we have them doing things that they shouldn't be doing. So, yeah, I don't I'll have to think about that. That's very insightful. Very good point. All right. I don't see Warhamster. Did you have anything?

1:50:01 Yeah, hey, I got on late, so I don't know. I'm not going to comment on the gist of what you've talked about tonight. But our friend all along with the fair play do it from Mama brought up something really interesting that I've been reading up about. He talked about the 68 election, 1968. People forget. I just recently did a deep dive into this, and it's something we all need to take a much bigger look at.

1:50:27 George Wallace ran as an independent and had he not done so, Nixon does not win. Correct. That's why I thought this one was so much. I did a deep dive into it, too. If you compare this election with RFK coming in. Yeah. In fact, I think you and I may have talked about that. And that's what we did that like months ago. Yeah. Just for those who haven't, Nixon got 43.4 percent of the popular vote.

1:50:55 Hubert Humphrey, the Democrat, got 42.7, so spitting distance apart. Wallace got 13.5%. The states that Nixon carried, 32 states. Humphrey carried 13, plus Washington, D.C., and Wallace carried 5. Nixon got 301 electoral votes. Humphrey got 191, and George Wallace, third party, got 46. So the five states that Wallace carried.

1:51:24 would have been pretty much the Sun Belt, and they would have gone Democrat back in the 60s. Absolutely. So that wouldn't have pushed them over the line to win the electoral vote, but there are eight states that Nixon won, which represented 84 electoral votes that were within 2%.

1:51:46 That if you take Wallace out of there, it probably goes the other direction. So Wallace isn't necessarily a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, but it's more of a constitutional question, which is why I got into it. But it's absolutely worth a much deeper dive. That 1968 election changed the United States in so many ways. And that's not even talking about RFK, what happened to him.

1:52:11 So I'm glad our friend brought up the topic, but it's something we really need to deep dive much more deeply into. Yeah, it is very interesting because the similarities between the 68 when I started looking into it and the election we just went through where you have the Democrat nominee not ever having gotten a single primary vote.

1:52:38 And they had the convention in Chicago both times. There were so many similarities in it. It was just like, holy crap, holy crap. Yeah. History rhymes sometimes. I forget the expression, but yeah. We probably owe it to ourselves to do a full show on what was going on in 68 because politically, I think.

1:53:04 Well, I think there was a consolidation of power in D.C. I think there was a really big movement away from and I hate using this word democracy, but into the consolidation of the political parties. It really changed. It was a changing. It was a moment of change. Correct. I think you're right. And it's even more interesting in looking at it with what.

1:53:32 Not only what Nixon did, like basically his quote unquote war on drugs and moving it over to the CIA and some of those things, but how he ended up and how we got to Ford and Rockefeller, who was instrumental in basically finally blocking all of the information of JFK's assassination. So the whole thing is just crazy with. Well, yeah, let's not forget who Nixon beat in Republican.

1:54:01 Primary. That was Rockefeller. Yes, I know. That would be Nelson. For those who don't know, that would be Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. And he's named after his famous grandfather, not the Rockefeller grandfather, but Senator Aldrich, who just happened to be the guy who owned the train that took all the bankers down to Jekyll Island in 1911 to create the Federal Reserve.

1:54:28 The same U.S. senator who ran the Senate Banking Committee. So that's who this Rockefeller came from. Really good family lines there. Yeah. And Nelson Rockefeller, yeah, he's his own story. I mean, he's just, he's so rotten, rotten, rotten. He started in 1971, and that's an entire series of shows.

1:54:57 I'll zip it now. Okay, Miles, go ahead. Yeah, to expand on that, I'm glad Warhamster brought that up. So if the Democratic Convention hadn't turned out the way it did, and there was more unity at that convention, and there weren't riots in the street, and almost like a police state,

1:55:23 I watched that on TV. I saw what was going on. So did the whole nation. And they wanted, I think, in their mindset, they went, well, we don't want this. We want law and order. And so that could have swung a lot of votes during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. You mean they had their George Foreman? Not George Foreman. George Floyd. Yeah.

1:55:51 Yeah, but that's an awesome point just brought up because people forget that the 1960s made the 2020 Summer of Love look like a warm-up act. If you really go back and look at the 60s, it was far more violent on the streets. There was far more turmoil. So that's a really good point there about the 68 Convention. And the Chicago connection is more than ironic. Yes, exactly.

1:56:19 All along. Go ahead. Yeah. Very, very important points here about 1968 and also 1972, which together I kind of have been seeing them recently as metaphorically speaking, the Altoona curve of the DNC, like the long, big change. And what is especially significant is that this is where the so-called left should be.

1:56:50 living if they really oppose the Democrats. And it's where the so-called left never flies. So in particular, Warhamster brought up the role of George Wallace. So George Wallace, yes, he's important in 68, but he's also very significant, as we know, in 1972, because with George Wallace in the race as

1:57:20 I've probably said before, you know, McGovern and Nixon were essentially tied. He gets shot and it's a landslide. And so also relating to the more recent point, and by the way, on a side note on that, if anyone has seen the movie called The Parallax View, it's an absolutely unbelievable movie about the CIA.

1:57:50 And it is the final assassination makes a lot more sense if we recall the 1972 George Wallace shooting and how Nixon and McGovern were very close to tied with George Wallace in the race. So the first assassination is based on the RFK hit. The movie came out in 74. The second one is loosely based on the on the George Wallace. And it's it's an amazing movie. But.

1:58:17 Also related to 1968, which is something that I mean, we just need to talk about forever. I agree absolutely with what Warhamster is saying. There's something about that year in which the the final Lincoln duopoly kind of two scissor blade collaboration that may be putting too strong an emphasis on that is 1968. I mean, the violence mentioned in Chicago.

1:58:47 Let's think about had RFK survived to Chicago. That's a link between the protesters in the streets and inside the convention. Right. So that's a continuity and political continuity of bringing on a whole new group of people, not only as as Gene McCarthy had the middle class anti-war students, but also the.

1:59:16 Walter Reuther, the lower paid aspects of the AFL-CIO. And the CIO was very weak. And what we see in the period of the assassinations, 63 to 1970, is you had some candidates who were kind of making that CIO part of the AFL-CIO partnership, which really was just on paper because it was dominated by AFL and George Meany's ties to CIA.

1:59:42 They were bringing that more, trying to bring it back more on board. And that truly threatened elites within both parties. And it's why, you know, elites within the DNC were happy to see RFK gone. And they were also happy to see George McGovern gone. And by the way, it's easy to forget. And I always do. Guess who? You know, George McGovern was backing the RFK campaign in 1968 and was even thinking of replacing RFK.

2:00:10 as a primary candidate as late as August 1968. So there's continuity between 68 and 72, and that continuity is very dangerous for us to see from the perspective of elites, in my opinion. I agree. Alfred, go ahead. Hi, Cardinal. Thanks for the mic. Hope you're doing well. I'm wondering if you have a minute, if you want to chat about the Laurel Canyons. Sure, go ahead. You know, I read those links, or I read most of it.

2:00:42 And a lot of the information is in the book. So let me just back up a second. So I've been reading music biographies for like decades. I read the Zappa one, the Pamela DeBar's one. There's a lot of corroboration of information from the various biographies, documentaries, things like that. Just something I've sort of been a hobby of mine for a while. And so, you know, a lot of the information.

2:01:14 Was kind of corroborating what was in the books, but it was being framed in a way that I don't think is accurate. In what way? So, for example, like just starting with the military kids, the thing that I saw, like, for example, Frank Zappa, his father was, I think he was in like chemical warfare, chemical.

2:01:45 Warfare, like the chemical, yeah, in the military for the army, right? Right. And they moved around a lot. And Jim Morrison's father was an admiral or rear admiral in the Navy. And they moved around a lot. I didn't really know about Michael Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas. And I didn't really know about David Crosby as much. But the thing is, you know, these military kids.

2:02:14 You know, we've met them in life and they've moved around a lot. And so they're sort of a little bit different. But the thing that I saw was reading the various biographies is that they were sort of anti authority. And I think it's I think jumping to the conclusion that they were working for the CIA is kind of a big jump. There was a comment you made about the.

2:02:41 So there were a few things going on. So at the time, it was sort of a weird time, right? So there was a draft. So there were kids dodging the draft and dropping out of society, people running away, going to the Haight-Ashbury, things like that. But like with Zappa, they talk pretty extensively in the book about that troop.

2:03:13 I find it really hard to think that they were involved with the CIA in any way. The way they were described in the biography in the book was they were just drug addled, super freaky, weird party people. I mean, kind of people that had sort of dropped out of society. So they were emulating a behavior that the.

2:03:45 The powers that be wanted to associate with the anti-war movement. Everything that you said can be true in conjunction with it being manipulated to make it appear that way. So I think that there was an aspect. So these people would have been like they would have smelled a cop or a Fed or a CIA agent a mile away. You know what I'm saying?

2:04:14 But I don't think you're understanding what I'm trying to say. I can create an environment that, because you have to understand that the people that created that entire environment had spent the last 20 years in developing things like LSD and MKUltra as far as running experiments on how people react.

2:04:43 So everything that you just said can be true and it could all be manipulated to achieve what their end goal was. Their whole end goal, Alfred, I think in all of that was for in the minds of American, just like we just talked about, about that yellow ribbon. There was a there was a result that they wanted and they achieved in spades, which was.

2:05:13 If you took the two, the group that you just described, the drugged out, crazy musician. That's right. Okay. So you take that group and you compare it to the beginning of our involvement in the Vietnam and the kids, the same age kids that were interviewed on television.

2:05:39 had the button-down collars, long-sleeved shirt, well-spoken. They were attending college. They were doing all of the right things. And they did not want to go support a war that they knew, however they knew it. And I watched some of these videos. I was amazed because I can tell you, even my smartest kid at 20 was not talking like this.

2:06:09 But they knew that the Vietnam War was bullshit. And they were having such a detrimental effect on crafting a narrative that the CIA wanted all of us to believe. Oh, my God, we got attacked because it worked in World War Two. Right. It worked in the Korean War. So they needed it to work again. So they staged the Gulf of Tonkin.

2:06:37 And all of a sudden they have this thing that had not happened. And you've got this very young, articulate college kids getting on camera and telling the world that the government's full of shit and they're trying to get them killed. And it's all for drugs. And so they had to, the way everything that I've read, they had to get away from that. They had to discredit that narrative.

2:07:06 And so their idea of discrediting that narrative was to associate, which now if you go back and you ask anybody, just like what we were saying, I just said my first about the Iranian hostages, my first vision is the yellow ribbon. Well, they do that on purpose. The first idea that pops into anybody's brain is the anti-war movement associated with Vietnam is hippies and those musicians not.

2:07:35 the well-articulated college button-down kids that were right about everything they said. They were right about everything. And so I'm not saying that they were on a mission and they were sneaking around in the bushes and all that other stuff as far as what you and I would normally say was a CIA program. I'm not even saying that they went there knowing that.

2:08:05 I am saying that they were used in a bigger effort and whether they knew it or not, not even really relevant to the resulting takeaway. Does that make sense? Not really. So Zappa made some early. OK, I get kind of what you're saying. OK, so Zappa made some early appearances where, yeah, he was wearing a suit and playing a bicycle. I'm like Michael Doug, Mike Douglas or one of these shows. Right.

2:08:32 You know, he was really smart guy, very articulate. The biography was really interesting, very anti-war, anti-drugs. Like he kicked Lil George out of his band for showing up at a rehearsal stone. Lil George went on to form Little Feet, that band, and died of drugs, you know. So I think my issue is with the links, with the information, it's just the way it's being framed.

2:08:59 Like they talked about the tunnels. The tunnels were in the book, the Zappa book. But what would they be using them for? Right. And I mean, correlating these four kids that had military parents and jumping to the conclusion that they were CIA operatives. I think that's just not. But see, I'm not saying that they are worth CIA operatives. I think that's a miscommunication. But the implication on some of those links were or that they were like.

2:09:30 So I think what I'm trying, what am I trying to say? But Albert, I would use your own reason. The people that are military and the people that are raised by intelligence officials have some very unique qualities. And those qualities known to psychiatrists and psychologists can be used. So if you take for all of the reasons you just said.

2:09:59 You move around. You don't have a lot of friend groups. And then you take all of those, you know, 18 year olds, 20 year olds, and you plop them down in Southern California and one of the coolest places in the whole world. You tell them that they're going to be part of this new thing because there was no music industry in L.A. at all. Right. And so now and you've got these mafia clubs that are built.

2:10:25 specifically for these groups to go play in. You've got these crazy women in these scantily dressed, crazy outfits shipped into the local. So I think I get what you're saying. Okay. But I think you're giving the program way too much credit. I think that there's an ontological aspect. Like there was a spirit of the times, right? Like there were disgruntled youth because they were being drafted and sent into a meat grinder to be killed in Vietnam.

2:10:55 Right. So there was this music scene in Ontario right before that. That's where like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and all these people. It was like a folk scene. A lot of those kids were dodging the draft. They were going to Toronto. And then so then news came out. Oh, Laurel Canyon was the new hit place or Hate Ashbury was the new hit place. And they went there.

2:11:20 You know, I will say one thing. A lot of these people that I've been, you know, we listen to these, we know their names, you know, Neil Young, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, we've been listening to their music, their music, you know, we're familiar with it and stuff. But like what really shocked me four years ago, like in 2020, and I started realizing this is something I think is pretty screwed up. A lot of the people that I looked up to or admired as musicians, really, it's.

2:11:49 obvious that someone in their life is packing their head with complete dog shit about what's going on politically in the world. Right. Like they're all like Democrats. They're all like, I think Kamala, you know, they're all just completely wrong. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like these, a lot of these celebrities, they're just like their, their whole, their whole outlook, their whole paradigm, the world is just fucked. I mean, that's, that's something I,

2:12:19 you know, conspiratorially do see. So when you say that I'm giving the CIA and they're being able to manipulate people too much credit, the only thing that I would point out to you is that an operation as big as Operation Gladio went on for, you know, the better part of 70 years and no one even knows about it. So I think that they are.

2:12:49 very very good at what they're good at hiding behind their bullshit i get it i get it yeah i don't think they're as good as as they are now as they were in 1968 or 69 you know what i'm saying well it's the communication is much more open i don't think it worked the way they wanted it to i think like that whole thing just sort of not it blew up in their face if you know what i'm and i think in some ways it is now too because people are looking at the media

2:13:16 Oh, there's always a boomerang. There's always a boomerang. You're absolutely right. It's tough because it's, you know, you're playing mind games, right? So where does the mind game begin and where does reality, that's why I was saying earlier in the comments, like sometimes it's like, you know, it's really hard to know when to put your glasses on and when you got to take, sometimes you got to take them off too and just say, well, this is real, right? This is reality. This is the real world, right? No, I agree with you. So Alfred, let me, let me. Okay.

2:13:45 I don't know if you watched the and I'm going to get to the rest of the hands because we're all right. And then I'm going to go. That's it. No, this is a great conversation. And it's definitely one that needs to be had because people I don't want people that's just going to agree with me on everything. I want that dialogue. And I think it's important for everybody to understand we can disagree respectfully and have different opinions on the outcomes as long as we can agree that.

2:14:13 These are the facts. These things happen. And that's exactly what we've just demonstrated, Alfred. I absolutely love the fact that you did this. But I I think that the I don't know if you saw the Tucker Carlson interview with the quote unquote historian.

2:14:34 That had done and spent a whole bunch of time digging into Jim Jones. I kind of did. I kind of did. But I wasn't paying. Go ahead. So I think that's illustrative of my point. You can spend. I mean, this guy spent tons and tons and tons of time researching Jim Jones. We spent a week.

2:15:01 And what we found, because we're focused on Operation Gladio, was the fact that he had a pedophilia network in San Francisco. The guy never found out. He was in Brazil during the overthrow of the Brazilian government as a CIA asset. He created a terrorist training camp for Operation Gladio training in Guyana. He was in Cuba during the CIA attacks on.

2:15:29 Cuba in 1960, sending photos of burning Cuban sugar cane fields back to CIA. I mean, you've turned me on to this stuff that I had no idea. And not just Jim. So that's my point. Right. So that's my point. So Whitney Webb wrote a book of a thousand pages just about and never.

2:15:51 discovered Operation Gladio, and she talked about every aspect of it, the money laundering, the drug networks, the arms deals, and never found Operation Gladio. So it is possible to frame things in a way, and I don't honestly know, Alfred, to your point, I don't know whether they're gatekeeping or they just literally didn't find it. I don't know. And that's the whole reason that I asked the question.

2:16:17 um about mike benz i don't know but i think their worst fear is us just being open and honest about stuff and you and i having this conversation in public they don't want us talking about it um because what happens is we all independently can form our own conclusions as long as we know the fact i mean i've had suspicions about joe rogan i don't know if you've watched that interview i started watching it but i couldn't finish it

2:16:44 So Joe Rogan, I don't know. There's something about him that I've always I don't know. I can't I'm not going to accuse anyone of anything, you know. Right. But we all come from different walks of life that shape our assessment of the same information. And we can be OK with that.

2:17:04 You're going to see you spend a lot of time in the music area. So you're going to see it completely different than I see it, because I see it from a military perspective and the setting up of a psychological operation that, by the way, if it wasn't on purpose, damn sure worked. What in what way do you think you're talking about the hippie movement or. Yes. As far as leaving the the understanding of what that was all about.

2:17:32 being the anti-war movement is now seeing in hindsight as a hippie thing as opposed to what it really was um they basically manipulated the entire reality into something but yeah i just found those links so i just found what he was it was really contrived okay like he starts talking about um really kind of unrelated things you know when he was talking about all the deaths um you know

2:18:01 It just it wasn't it just it he was pulling in factoids that may try to prove a point. But in doing so, I think he discredited what he was trying to say. And we're going to have different opinions on, I think, from the perspective of what I look at and how many people die around operations. See, I.

2:18:26 That overlook, you know, that overlook what that Air Force base, I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with Jay Widener. He does some pretty interesting work. But he did a documentary I just saw the other day. I think it was called The Clockwork Shining. I've seen that. You've seen it? Okay. So the whole shining thing was laying out in MKUltra. I didn't really know that.

2:18:55 Yeah, I found that to be really interesting. So there is that. I mean, there's some weirdness in Laurel Canyon, but I think it came a little later. I don't know. I think, you know, rich kids with trust funds playing music. Can I just jump in for a second? Because you had mentioned the tunnels. Right. Now, I want you to understand the tunnels, okay, and the child trafficking.

2:19:21 And the fact that Hugh Hefner's plane is flying Vietnamese children out of Vietnam. I don't think Frank Zappa did anything nefarious. And there's no proof or there's no evidence. I'm not saying Frank Zappa did. I'm saying there's tunnels there and you mentioned them. And that's why the tunnels are there. Actually, that's not why they were there. From what I read in the biography, they were older. It was from prohibition and they were running alcohol.

2:19:50 You know, I have my grandfather's house when I was growing up. You know, there was a secret tunnel that went across the railroad tracks. And they told me that that was there from and it wasn't used anymore. You couldn't go down into them or anything like that. But that was from the Underground Railroad, like, you know, from helping the slave. I did go back because I used to live out there. I did go back and look at the years of prohibition. And there were.

2:20:20 a handful of houses built in Laurel Canyon during that time, but very few. Right. It was sort of a party place, even back in the 20s. The majority of those houses that are talked about by Dave McGowan were built after Prohibition time, and they still had tunnels. And I'm sorry, but houses that are built in the late 40s and early 50s.

2:20:45 generally were not built with tunnels to each other right so what were the tunnels being you think they were it was for child trafficking i don't know um i will i will tell you and i know there's a whole group of people that every time you um mention and i'm not talking about cousin it because this one really is suspect because if if you look at um

2:21:09 some of the people that lived in that neighborhood. And she mentions one of them, but there's more. The planes, I don't know if you're familiar with like the baby lift that came out of Vietnam. What I have now discovered is that's like what we were seeing in Guatemala and it's under investigation right now.

2:21:29 There was a whole bunch of, we saw it in Haiti. There's something going on there. There is a common theme where everywhere there's Operation Gladio shit going on. There's truckloads of children that supposedly are now parentless that get shuffled through Christian and other religion charities into the United States as unaccompanied.

2:21:54 That's beyond horrible. And as we're finding out, I mean, these rings are kind of getting exposed to some extent, you know, with the open borders. And I can't think of anything more just abhorrent. It's just so... So when I found out that the Playboy, I mean, we just posted a picture of that. The Playboy aircraft was used to traffic kids out of Vietnam.

2:22:21 And no one knows where those children went. They were never turned over to officials. There's no records of where they went. So could that have been used for that? Yes, it could have. Do I know for a fact that it was? I do not know. But I do find it odd that a significant, more than a couple, you could actually kind of see it if it was.

2:22:47 Like two best friends that built houses side by side that you may want to have. But I mean, you're talking Southern California. There's no weather. There's no any reason that you would build tunnels to each other's houses. And they did. So what are they moving around? And it could have just been drugs. There's tunnels all out in Southern California for drugs. Yeah. But I mean, you know.

2:23:11 I don't know. I don't think they would have needed tunnels to move LSD or anything around. You know what I'm saying? So I'm not saying they did. I'm just telling you that there were drug sales done in all of those homes. And it does give you a way of being able to expedite the movement of that without. Yeah, there's no doubt that there was. I mean, I actually. So it's it's known that it's well known that Kesey was involved in it.

2:23:41 You know, it's not like a CIA Stanford thing. That's how he got turned on to LSD to begin with. But I don't think he was an agent. I think according to Tom Wolfe's book, Acid Kool-Aid Test, he broke in and stole a bunch. And then they went out. I mean, you know, they freaked out. Hippies having parties in the woods. Right. But it's also another book that they talked about, you know, the CIA putting LSD into, you know, on the street in Haight-Ashbury as well.

2:24:12 Yeah, let me get the rest of these hands. Tim, go ahead. Oh, thanks. You caught me off guard. Arnold, I'm a big musician, too, and I had a totally different take. So all of the artists that you find it hard to believe may have been assets. I grew up knowing there was something different and something.

2:24:39 Not right with that group. Never liked Zappa, never liked Crosby, Stills, never liked Jim Morrison, all those groups. And I was actually upset when I started digging and found out about MK Ultra and the fact that they were in the military. Because, you know, and the colonel touched on this a little bit, but think about it. You're a child. And as soon as you get into a situation where you're comfortable, you got a few new friends, you're jerked out of that situation. Well, that is traumatizing.

2:25:08 And it is mind conditioning. And, you know, for them, and nobody knows what they did to these children when they were young children. A lot of their parents didn't know. They were busy. They were in the military. So they had no idea what was going on with their kids when they were growing up. But I can tell you the only one that really upset me that I felt was definitely something that attacked our...

2:25:35 country's youth was during my young generation, and that was Pink Floyd and ELO. I was really pissed when I looked at the political scene of what that did. I don't want to go too long and pontificate on this stuff, but if you look at what happened with the hippie movement, there were several things. Saul Linsky touched on this. You attack their morals.

2:26:02 The kids were, you know, it was wild sex, it was drugs, it was rock and roll, it was fighting authority. And then what did you get from that? You had a Vietnam War that they opposed, but what did they do? They hated those military men that came back from Vietnam, like it was their fault that they caused the war. So what did they do? In a threefold strike, they turned our youth against the military?

2:26:31 And discourage them from being patriotic. They debased their minds and caused immorality. And, you know, it wasn't as bad as what it is now with the Internet. And to me, thank God Elon Musk came along when he did and bought Twitter. Because the path that we were headed down with our youth and being censored and not having a voice.

2:26:58 would have been detrimental for 50 years, if not more, to this country. I believe our country would have been done had he not done that and opened the voices back up. But some of the things that you mentioned, yeah, it's hard to accept that they actually knew they were assets. I would just say they were influenced to the point where they were used without even being known that they were being used, even to themselves.

2:27:25 And I think that's the point, Tim, at the end of it. The result, whether or not they knew or not, because you can manipulate people. That's a great point. Let's see. All along. Go ahead. Yeah. Colonel, you suggested, I think, that the sort of cultural aspect of the 1960s, what we might call incense, peppermints and paisley aspect.

2:27:55 has been used to occlude the actually fundamentally different on an organizational level anti-war aspect. I think I agree with that. It's been used as a kind of backward lens to distort history by focusing on the more cultural changes at the expense of organizational anti-war. I also think that applies to another...

2:28:25 that the incense, peppermints, paisley aspect, or cultural aspect, if you will, has been used to occlude the labor aspect of the 1960s, which normally gets not even a wink of attention anywhere. And I think it's kind of hidden, but the CIO aspect between 1963 and...

2:28:53 Continuing through the 1968 RFK campaign is really, really important and relates to all of the major assassinations, including Malcolm X in a certain way. Although he's not affiliated with political campaigns, I mean, he did not accept the idea that, you know, black leaders could speak uniformly for black people. He said, what about the black working class? And that connects directly with CIO activization as well. So there's been a lot of occlusion about this period.

2:29:24 by media emphasis on cultural at the expense of political anti-war organization and also at the expense of labor history. Yeah, that's a good point. Cousinette? Yeah, I just have a question for people to ponder. So Laurel Canyon musicians and actors were all of military fighting age. How is it they avoided the draft?

2:30:01 Yeah, a couple of them had military experience, but that is an excellent point. And Dave McGowan brings that up. How did they avoid the draft? They already had a job. Okay, SR-71, go. Thank you. We got to get through these so I can go eat. Thank you, Colonel. I'm going to take a different tact on this. And what I saw during the late 60s, early 70s, growing up as a child, coming of age,

2:30:35 And what's missing out of all of this is, yeah, you had the hippie movement and you had all that other stuff going on. But then you had the general public that was taking a look at it and also the military community taking a look at it. And moms sitting there saying, I don't want my kid anywhere near that. And I'm going to do anything and everything I can to keep them away.

2:31:03 So to me, it was a distraction concerning what was going on in Vietnam, even though at that point in time, there were actual commercials on TV about Vietnam. Let's not make it a third world war. It was unbelievable. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Sunshine, go ahead. Yeah, I just kind of wanted to sum up a little bit with that Laurel Canyon group. I think one of the big things that you need to do.

2:31:32 With that group of artists, you know, whether they're musical or, you know, Hollywood type, whatever, I think you need to look at who their parents were. I think that was kind of key. They were kind of inserted into, you know, that scene there. It wasn't really something that happened organically. Yeah, I mean, many of them did not have any musical. There were some that did.

2:32:04 but a lot of them didn't. It just is very suspect. I agree. Andy, go ahead. Yeah, I just want to say sort of off the topic just a bit, but basically we're pretty much over the, whatever they say, over the mark here in terms of the discussion. And I had to listen to one of the spaces on the recorded because the app was always so glitchy. And I guess now,

2:32:33 I can go through rumble and listen there. But on this app, I learned the trick through guru said, if you become a speaker, you can listen. So, yeah, I just wondered if, if you actually reported this, if this is something that might be just a glitch with the, with the app, or if it's because we're really being, you know, harassed here in terms of using X for these discussions. So it is not.

2:33:04 It it it has to be X. There are people I don't know. Can you guys is the sound better the last couple of days for you guys? I'm looking down in the audience. Can you guys give me a thumbs up if the sound is better for you guys the last couple of days? It was better for me, except when the one glitch that I heard today is when you're talking about Mr. Brown and how he died. That was.

2:33:32 curiously inaudible. And I was wondering if you could say that part again. I'm sorry. Yes, he was shot. His aircraft was shot. Well, it crashed. Let me say that. His aircraft crashed and he was found with an autopsy with a bullet hole to the head. And then they tried to change the autopsy, but the Air Force person wouldn't change it. And we lost an entire Air Force crew to include flight attendants.

2:34:02 when they basically assassinated him. It brought the aircraft down. So, yeah. Oh, I just wanted to finish. I tried a whole bunch of things. Even today, the app was glitchy, so I had to go back to Rumble. But basically, the speakers, or if you're talking, it cuts off for a bit, then it comes back. And sometimes it would, you know, actually kick me out of the space. So it was really, really still happening today.

2:34:30 Yeah, so I get kicked out of the space myself, Andy. I don't know of anybody else that that happens to. Also, there are people, you can go in any other space. I go into spaces all the time. I've never been in another space that has the sound going in and out. And yet every single time I have a space, the sound goes in and out. I've had that happen in some other spaces.

2:34:57 And then checked another space and it's working fine. So yeah, there are particular spaces that are being targeted, it looks like. Yeah, I think it's just crazy. Okay, Miles? Yeah, thanks. I want to go back to Vietnam because I was in that era. And there was a lot of people like me that were in high school that didn't want to go to Vietnam. There was a draft. So we were doing all the research we could.

2:35:25 to find out what the hell was going on over there. And that was a problem because there was too many smart kids back then. So what they had to do, and I believe the colonel's right with a lot of the research we've done, the Beatles were a pop band until they weren't. And then they're on a magical mystery tour. So all this stuff, I think, is correct that.

2:35:54 They ran a program to have, divide and conquer, to have these people that didn't, look, the smart people like me even did, you know, we started experimenting with drugs and stuff. And it dumbed us down. We didn't really know what was going on. We didn't pay attention anymore. And they allowed the drug movement back then.

2:36:22 It was obvious there was drugs everywhere and you weren't getting arrested for it. So, I mean, there's places in Minneapolis that they sold drugs right outside of the drugstore. And how easy would that be to shut down? And they allowed that to happen until after, you know, the Vietnam War got shut down and they had to run another operation.

2:36:50 And then it was, you know, just say no. So, you know, when another group of people came back in and shut the drug market down. Well, I think what most people, I think back then, like they were doing with the GIs, they wanted everybody hooked on it so they could create their own demand. Yeah, but I'm just saying that a lot of those musicians, because I followed those.

2:37:16 people like jimmy hendrix and and if you do the deep dives on like even paul mccartney like is that really the real paul mccartney were they telling you that he did die in a car crash and they had he had to be replaced because they were completely different band you know so i i'm just saying i think you're right colonel and there's a there's a quincy jones memo

2:37:47 That actually says that the Beatles couldn't play worth a damn. And when they were working on studio riffs, they actually sent them out for a beer, brought somebody in for an hour, did all the music, sent the guy home. And when the Beatles came back in, Paul McCartney in particular said, well, that doesn't sound that bad. And Quincy Jones is like, yeah, because it ain't you. So, and you know, that of course brings up the,

2:38:16 point of the house band. Every studio has a house band. And it just so happened that Charles Manson was a house band on some of those people's albums that was non-attribution as well. SR-71? I'm sorry, Colonel. I'm trying to put my hand down. It won't go down. Okay, good. Because I need to get off here. Carrie, go.

2:38:46 Yeah, I just want to talk about what we talked about yesterday, which is frequency and how Rockefeller had to do with changing the frequency. And that's a really basic thing that people don't really think about, but it's really a profound thing. It's actually a very, very profound thing. And I also want to talk about Courtney Love, who...

2:39:15 Her mother was a therapist and sent her to therapy when she was two. And her father gave her LSD when she was three and blah, blah, blah. She, as far as I'm concerned, she still is a weapon. They would use a speck of dust as a weapon. And they say that, you know, I know you're not into the culture, but.

2:39:42 People point to that she was part of the milk ultra program, which I don't know that much about. But that's that's their goal to make these people a weapon. And if people don't think that culture war matters. Oh, please. Oh, please. Yeah, that's what they did with Mackenzie Phillips, too. I've I've read her book. It's horrifying. Some of the experiences that she had.

2:40:11 Alfred, I'm going to let you guys, I'm going to let you close it up, but please be stiff because I need to go eat. Oh, my hand wouldn't go down either. Thanks again. Really, really nice chat today. Okay. Thank you. All right, everybody. This was an awesome space. Thank you for being here. And thanks for sticking around for the entire thing, because I know that I went long, which is why I wanted to stay around.

2:40:39 long enough for everybody to get out what we needed to talk about. And I do think it's incredibly important for us to be able to have these kinds of discussions and not necessarily agree on what our takeaways are. Presenting the information and allowing other people the freedom to form their own opinion because of how they grew up. You know, it's funny listening to you guys talk about

2:41:08 Obviously, I have children of military, being a military officer, that all of the stuff that you guys were talking about applies to my kids. And that is one of the, you know, you have children, they come out one of two ways that I've noticed. You have a very outgoing child that can adapt to anything, or you have a recluse that because...

2:41:38 especially officers. Enlisted people do not move around nearly as often. But officers, the higher in rank you go, the more you move. My middle daughter went to 11 schools in 12 years. And all of the stuff that you guys talk about is absolutely true. She is the one that's in the band. She's the lead guitarist in a band.

2:42:05 She's made records. She does all of that stuff. And so everything that we just talked about applies to me. And so I found this incredibly interesting based on the research that you've done yourself and the life, as Tim says, and I noticed he's an over-the-road truck driver, which my dad was as well for 45 years. We all have...

2:42:34 different backgrounds, while at the same time, many of us have very similar backgrounds and being respectful of each other and having the conversations and just say, hey, I didn't see that at all that way. Because what you oftentimes find out is maybe you were a little too quick to, because we're all, like you said, you got to take your glasses off sometime.

2:43:00 My glasses, unfortunately, don't come off very often because almost everything that we're experiencing right now in some way relates to the research that we've done. But yeah, that's absolutely a fair point. Not everything's going to wrap itself around the CIA. And we just need to take a deep breath and move on. And thank you guys again for being here.

2:43:27 for all of the support, for sharing out all of the information that I presented. Because again, we touched, what was my thing? Everybody's going to get their Wheaties peed in at least once. All of the stuff is going to touch each and every one of us differently, number one, but it will touch every single one of us. There's going to be something that you thought was the Holy Grail that could not have been corrupted and you're going to find out that it was.

2:43:57 And we're just going to all grieve together and figure out a way to make everything better starting in January. So again, thank you all for being here and I will see you tomorrow.

Entities here

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Claims made here

A.Q. Khan exported Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 24:40

“who was the father of the Pakistani nuclear program and blamed by many for exporting nuclear technology throughout the Islamic world and beyond, like to places like North Korea. Khan had never been qu…”

CIA funded A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 24:40

BCCI laundered_money_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 25:39

“through the drug operations to send the nuclear switches, trigger mechanisms, if you will, over to Pakistan. So they definitely, the CIA was definitely involved in the exporting of nuclear technology.…”

France supplied_arms_to Israel book_quoted ▶ 26:08

“technology to Israel who built their nuclear program and then tested it in South Africa. We did that whole trail as well because most of those transactions were, I won't say most, some of those transa…”

Nugan Hand Bank financed_via CIA book_quoted ▶ 26:08

Kamal Adham funded BCCI book_quoted ▶ 26:36

“that had general officers on the board of it. So, all right, to the book. The worst crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the capture of the Tehran embassy in 1979 and the taking of American hostage…”

Thomas Sullivan succeeded Richard Helms book_quoted ▶ 27:35

“Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people servi…”

Richard Helms appointed Thomas Sullivan book_quoted ▶ 27:35

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Reza Pahlavi book_quoted ▶ 28:36

“with Reagan. So that should not be a surprise to anyone. They can say that they told him and that he ignored it. And who knows, maybe he did because maybe they knew that they were the CIA. Who knows? …”

CIA covered_up Iran book_quoted ▶ 29:35

“The unrest spread to other cities. By August, the city of Esapan was placed under martial law. Then the protests turned deadly. Several hundred Iranians were burned to death when a theater was torched…”

SAVAK carried_out_attack Iran book_quoted ▶ 30:06

“to abandon the Shah's failing regime even after martial law had been imposed in Tehran and hundreds of protesters had been gunned down by the SAVAK on what came to be known as Black Friday. Now, all o…”

CIA trained SAVAK book_quoted ▶ 30:35

“by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence…”

CIA installed Ayatollah Khomeini book_quoted ▶ 31:03

“in 1964 when the CIA arranged a safe haven for him in Iraq after he had briefly been imprisoned by the Sabah and exiled to Turkey. Now, this is very interesting again. For Helms and Shackley, the CIA …”

CIA supplied_arms_to Saddam Hussein book_quoted ▶ 32:46

“and teeming with CIA people everywhere. The CIA arranged for the Iraqi regime to let Khomeini move to the holy city of Najjar, where he directed his campaign against the Shah. When Saddam Hussein came…”

SAVAK assassinated Mustafa Khomeini book_quoted ▶ 33:42

“Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of…”

SAVAK carried_out_attack Iran book_quoted ▶ 34:11

“was followed by an attack on the father by the Shah's information minister, the theological colleges shut down in protest inside of Iran. In January of the following year, 4,000 seminary students in Q…”

BCCI financed_via Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted ▶ 35:12

“in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is …”

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Saddam Hussein book_quoted ▶ 35:12

CIA trained Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 36:14

“Several Iranians who had been on the CIA's payroll in the United States joined his staff in France. They're plotting as part of his staff, this is the CIA, for him to come back to Iran. And you rememb…”

CIA embedded Michigan State University host_asserted ▶ 38:40

“And you had the Michigan State University where they embedded CIA agents as staff that then deployed over to Vietnam under the guise of them working to set up the national police when in fact they wer…”

Ayatollah Khomeini appointed Mehdi Bazargan documented ▶ 42:11

“to leave Iran. A few weeks later, after 14 years in exile, Khomeini, with several CIA agents on his staff, returned to Iran, where he appointed Mehdi Barzagan to head the first Iranian provincial gove…”

Jimmy Carter approved Reza Pahlavi documented ▶ 42:42

“advanced prostate cancer treatment. In September 1979, Carter approved the visit and the dying Shah was flown in. Almost immediately, it was apparent that his treatment was seen as a slap in the face …”

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski negotiated Hassan Toufanian book_quoted ▶ 44:38

“General Hassan Toufanian, who was the vice minister of defense for procurement, was to force Toufanian to sign a memorandum of understanding. In his book called October Surprise, Gary Sick described t…”

BCCI financed_via Israel host_asserted ▶ 47:38

“It looks like all of that financing was done by BCCI. Under the auspices of General Tufanian, Iran had provided Israel huge amounts of foreign exchange in large land areas on which to test new militar…”

Hassan Toufanian paid Israel host_asserted ▶ 48:08

“Israeli's nuclear program, which had already produced a dozen nuclear weapons by 1977, was being partially funded by Iranian petrodollars, according to an Iranian mullah who worked for Hadari and wish…”

CIA installed Reza Pahlavi host_asserted ▶ 49:07

“But the loss of their 20-year relationship with Iran, their only major trading partner in the region, Israelis felt that they had to find a way to get along with the new regime. A friendly relationshi…”

Jimmy Carter ordered Operation Eagle Claw documented ▶ 49:38

“And we created their national police, the SABAC. So they're basically a vassal state of the U.S. And they have all of this military technology exchange, which would kind of mean the U.S. was facilitat…”

David Jones appointed Richard Secord host_asserted ▶ 52:04

“hostage rescue mission. General James Vaught was the nominal commander and Secord's deputy commander. Jones made it clear that it was Secord's show. Such a rescue, if successful, would have been a tre…”

Robert Gates provided William Casey book_quoted ▶ 55:36

“a week before the election in Cleveland, and the other was the possible release of the hostages. The theft of Carter's briefing book basically defeated one of the legs, being the debate, because, of c…”

William Casey met_with Jamshid Hashemi book_quoted ▶ 1:02:55

“No one else except his brother Cyrus was supposed to know what he was doing. So when someone knocked on his hotel door, he was surprised. At the door was a businessman named Roy Furmark, F-U-R-M-A-R-K…”

Donald Gregg met_with Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted ▶ 1:07:03

“national security staff. Gregg's official job was to coordinate intel in East Asia. At about that time, the first rescue mission collapsed. Gregg attended a meeting in New York with Cyrus Hashimi's ba…”

Donald Gregg met_with George H.W. Bush host_asserted ▶ 1:07:33

“who's also CIA. Former National Security aide David Aaron told the Village Boys, I think most people were unaware of those connections. They were definitely unaware of it. Gregg first met Bush at a di…”

Ted Shackley met_with George H.W. Bush host_asserted ▶ 1:10:01

“Chi Chi Quintero and Douglas Flatter told the FBI that both men had been meeting with George Bush on a regular basis because they're arranging their own October surprise, which is to basically ensure …”

Reagan-Bush campaign recruited Robert Keith Gray documented ▶ 1:12:35

“they actually employed CIA officers pretending to be PR people all over the world. That Robert Gray was with Donald Gregg and William Casey to go arrange the October surprise. The following week, Gray…”

Donald Gregg received Carter Administration book_quoted ▶ 1:13:08

“Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October sur…”

William Casey met_with Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted ▶ 1:13:38

“opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to e…”

William Casey proposed Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted ▶ 1:13:38

Israel supplied_arms_to Iran book_quoted ▶ 1:14:07

“Casey said that that would be impossible at this time since the Republicans weren't in power, but it could be done after they come to power. As the arms, perhaps that could be done through a third cou…”

William Casey promised Iran book_quoted ▶ 1:14:07

Cyrus Hashemi appointed William Casey book_quoted ▶ 1:15:52

“Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exile…”

Cyrus Hashemi trafficked Israel book_quoted ▶ 1:16:23

“Menachie, a former Israeli intelligence agency. And I'm going to put former in air quotes. There were four sessions with Casey and more meetings were set up for October. Israel would be the unnamed th…”

BCCI financed_via Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted ▶ 1:16:53

“to Bandar Abbas. The Israelis were paid through a letter of credit, and Hashemi received, according to CIA sources, a $7 million commission on the deal. That letter of credit was issued by BCCI. The H…”

Robert Sensi worked_for Royal Kuwaiti Airlines documented ▶ 1:18:53

“He was charged with stealing millions of dollars from the airline since he was ultimately convicted in the late 80s on 11 of 16 counts. Had he been an everyday criminal in the District of Columbia, he…”

Robert Sensi transported Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted ▶ 1:19:15

“Instead, a judge who had been appointed by Richard Nixon sentenced Sensei to a mere six months with the credit of four months already served in England. Adding to the mystery, the Royal Kuwaiti Airlin…”

Mark Thatcher hosted Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted ▶ 1:19:46

“to London, Madrid, and Paris, the negotiators dealing with William Casey and the September surprise. The Thatcher regime, already deeply beholden to the Arabs, were the host. A Royal Kuwaiti jet colle…”

William Casey appointed Tom Carter book_quoted ▶ 1:19:46

Saddam Hussein started Iran-Iraq War documented ▶ 1:20:16

“Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 …”

Robert McFarlane worked_for John Tower documented ▶ 1:20:45

“Expected didn't happen. Iran's need for weapons was acute and critical. The Hashemi brothers were not the only ones making overtures. In late September 1980, a bizarre meeting took place at the El Ava…”

Richard Allen met_with Hossein Lavi book_quoted ▶ 1:21:08

“had taken the national security aid. He was the national security aid to Texas Senator John Tower. And y'all can post, if you wouldn't mind, SR-71, what ends up happening to John Tower. If you just gr…”

Hossein Lavi contacted James Baker book_quoted ▶ 1:22:37

“Silberman said that he told the Middle Easterner that the country has only one president at a time. Hosheng Lavi, L-A-V-I, was an expatriate Iranian arms dealer, has claimed that he was the mysterious…”

Hossein Lavi proposed Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted ▶ 1:23:07

“through James Baker. But Lobby was also one of the arms brokers that Edwin Wilson used, along with Richard Secord and von Marbach. Lobby said that what was discussed at the meeting was F4 parts in exc…”

Hossein Lavi worked_with Edwin Wilson book_quoted ▶ 1:23:07

Hossein Lavi contacted John Lee Anderson book_quoted ▶ 1:24:07

“After the Republicans turned him down, he approached a third-party campaign of John Anderson through his attorney and former CIA counsel Mitchell Rogevin. Rogevin confirms that Lobby had also made the…”

Ian Smalley claimed British Ministry of Defense book_quoted ▶ 1:24:37

“Barry Riley, who arrested British gunrunner Ian Smalley, S-M-A-L-L-E-Y, said that Smalley threatened on June 18, 1982, which is two years in the future from this time, to reveal that the British Minis…”

Kamal Adham worked_for BCCI book_quoted ▶ 1:25:34

“is with BCCI, whose main bank is in the city of London. By the time Adam had moved many of his operations to London, to include BCCI, along, and they were very good friends with Thatcher and her husba…”

Kamal Adham recruited Mark Thatcher book_quoted ▶ 1:25:34

Abdol-Aziz Harandi wrote My Turn to Speak documented ▶ 1:26:30

“both Jeb Bush and George Bush Jr. of George Bush Sr. They also got George Bush Sr.'s brother involved. And as for Jimmy Carter, it would take him more than a decade to figure out the truth on how his …”

Abdol-Aziz Harandi claimed Reagan-Bush campaign book_quoted ▶ 1:27:00

“Bonnie Sautter. In his book, My Turn to Speak, I ran the revolution and secret deals with the U.S. This is a quote from his book. I have proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald…”

John Tower acted_as_liaison_for Reagan-Bush campaign host_asserted ▶ 1:43:24

“October surprise. As you know, Colonel, that involved our hero, Senator John Tower, once again as liaison between the Nixon campaign and the South Vietnam government. There's a lot of evidence showing…”

Marguerite Oswald spied_on John Tower host_asserted ▶ 1:43:54

“Now, that's an excellent point. And isn't it weird how Tower's name just keeps coming up? And by the way, sorry for interrupting. You know, John Tower also had key records from Lee Harvey Oswald's mom…”

Marguerite Oswald spied_on Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted ▶ 1:44:25

“And with Oswald's mom saying that she thought that this was an intelligence operation. So that's yet another sensitive area that might give cause some negative turbulence for Senator Tower, who again …”

John Tower spied_on George H.W. Bush host_asserted ▶ 1:44:51

“to question H.W. Bush about the Iran-Contra. And those questions, they were being re-questioned or about to be about contradictions between their initial statement to Senator Hines and Senator Tower v…”

George Wallace targeted_for_regime_change Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 1:50:27

“George Wallace ran as an independent and had he not done so, Nixon does not win. Correct. That's why I thought this one was so much. I did a deep dive into it, too. If you compare this election with R…”

Nelson W. Aldrich founded Federal Reserve host_asserted ▶ 1:54:01

“Primary. That was Rockefeller. Yes, I know. That would be Nelson. For those who don't know, that would be Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. And he's named after his famous grandfather, not the Rockefeller g…”

Whitney Webb exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 2:15:51

“discovered Operation Gladio, and she talked about every aspect of it, the money laundering, the drug networks, the arms deals, and never found Operation Gladio. So it is possible to frame things in a …”

Jay Widener exposed MKUltra guest_asserted ▶ 2:18:26

“That overlook, you know, that overlook what that Air Force base, I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with Jay Widener. He does some pretty interesting work. But he did a documentary I just saw the…”

Hugh Hefner trafficked Vietnam guest_asserted ▶ 2:19:21

“And the fact that Hugh Hefner's plane is flying Vietnamese children out of Vietnam. I don't think Frank Zappa did anything nefarious. And there's no proof or there's no evidence. I'm not saying Frank …”

Operation Gladio trafficked Guatemala guest_asserted ▶ 2:21:09

“some of the people that lived in that neighborhood. And she mentions one of them, but there's more. The planes, I don't know if you're familiar with like the baby lift that came out of Vietnam. What I…”

Operation Gladio trafficked Haiti guest_asserted ▶ 2:21:29

“There was a whole bunch of, we saw it in Haiti. There's something going on there. There is a common theme where everywhere there's Operation Gladio shit going on. There's truckloads of children that s…”

Ken Kesey trafficked Haight-Ashbury guest_asserted ▶ 2:23:41

“You know, it's not like a CIA Stanford thing. That's how he got turned on to LSD to begin with. But I don't think he was an agent. I think according to Tom Wolfe's book, Acid Kool-Aid Test, he broke i…”

Quincy Jones exposed The Beatles guest_asserted ▶ 2:37:47

“That actually says that the Beatles couldn't play worth a damn. And when they were working on studio riffs, they actually sent them out for a beer, brought somebody in for an hour, did all the music, …”

Charles Johnson member_of The Beatles guest_asserted ▶ 2:38:16

“point of the house band. Every studio has a house band. And it just so happened that Charles Manson was a house band on some of those people's albums that was non-attribution as well. SR-71? I'm sorry…”

John D. Rockefeller funded MKUltra guest_asserted ▶ 2:38:46

“Yeah, I just want to talk about what we talked about yesterday, which is frequency and how Rockefeller had to do with changing the frequency. And that's a really basic thing that people don't really t…”